Lydia Davis

David Ignaszewski

National Book Awards Finalist

Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven story collections. Her collection A Variety of Stories was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Award of Merit Medal, and was named a Chevalier of the Order of the Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers, including Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, and Marcel Proust. Lydia Davis is the winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize. She is at work on a translation of Madame Bovary.

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Lydia Davis at the FSG Reading Series

Award-winning writer and translator Lydia Davis debuts a few short works at the FSG Reading Series Russian Samovar in New York. Here, she turns a series of mistakes about her name, career, and accomplishments into a short work that, due to its own logic, can never be finished.

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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis
Picador

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A LOS ANGELES TIMES FICTION FAVORITE FOR 2009 A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST BOOK OF 2009 Lydia Davis is one...

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Break It Down

Lydia Davis
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis’s trademarks—dexterity, brevity, understatement, and...

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Varieties of Disturbance

Lydia Davis
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Lydia Davis has been called “one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction” (Los Angeles Times), “an American virtuoso of the short story form”...

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The End of the Story

Lydia Davis
Picador

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of...

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Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

Lydia Davis
Picador

From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations...

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Almost No Memory

Lydia Davis
Picador

Philosophical inquiry, examinations of language, and involuted domestic disputes are the focus of Lydia Davis’s inventive collection of short fiction,...

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