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Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, who often writes short (one or two pages long) short stories.
May 8, 2024 · 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 mostly mundane and routine occurrences.
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.
Dec 8, 2023 · Listen to Lydia Davis's interview with Eleanor Wachtel on Writers and Company, a CBC Radio show. She talks about her childhood, her language skills, her literary influences and her award-winning work.
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 Foundation “Genius” awards.
Lydia Davis is a short story writer, novelist, and translator. She is known for her very short, micro- or “flash” fiction and her translations of Flaubert and Proust.
Mar 10, 2014 · Somewhere in the files of General Mills is a letter from the very-short-story writer Lydia Davis. In it, Davis, who is widely considered one of the most original minds in American fiction...
