Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, who often writes very short stories. [1][2][3] Davis …

Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947, Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American writer noted for her idiosyncratic and extremely short stories often characterized by vivid observations of …

Oct 1, 2023 · Merve Emre talks with the writer and translator Lydia Davis about her painstaking attention to language, and how errors of communication can shape human relations.

Jun 26, 2014 · Lydia Davis, who was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2013, has been publishing short stories utterly unlike anyone else’s for almost 40 years.

Dec 8, 2023 · Called "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction," Lydia Davis's work is difficult to describe. Some of her short stories read like poems, running for just a few...

Davis is the author of one novel, The End of the Story (1995), and six story collections. Her translations from the French include new versions of Swann’s Way (2002) and Madame …

Lydia Davis, acclaimed fiction writer and translator, is famous in literary circles for her extremely brief and brilliantly inventive short stories. In fall 2003 she received one of 25 MacArthur …

Davis is best known for her very short, micro- or “flash” fiction; many of her stories are a single sentence or paragraph long. She has translated novels and works of philosophy from French, …

Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator. She is known for writing very short stories, usually 30 minute long stories.

Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven collections of stories, including most recently Can't and Won't (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014), as well as two collections of non-fiction, …