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Lydia Davis was born on 15 July, 1947 in Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S., is an American novelist. Discover Lydia Davis's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?
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Her "distinctive voice has never been easy to fit into conventional categories", writes Kasia Boddy in the Columbia Companion to the 21st Century Short Story.
Boddy writes: "Davis's parables are most successful when they examine the problems of communication between men and women, and the strategies each uses to interpret the other's words and actions."
Of contemporary authors, only Davis, Stuart Dybek, and Alice Fulton share the distinction of appearing in both The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Poetry series.
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.
Davis has produced several new translations of French literary classics, including Swann's Way by Marcel Proust and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
Davis was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, on July 15, 1947.
She is the daughter of Robert Gorham Davis, a critic and professor of English,
Davis initially "studied music—first piano, then violin—which was her first love."
On becoming a writer, Davis has said, "I was probably always headed to being a writer, even though that wasn't my first love. I guess I must have always wanted to write in some part of me or I wouldn't have done it."
She attended high school at The Putney School, Class of 1965.
She studied at Barnard College, and at that time she mostly wrote poetry.
In 1974 Davis married Paul Auster, with whom she had a son named Daniel (1977-2022).
Auster and Davis later divorced; Davis is now married to the artist Alan Cote, with whom she has another son, Theo Cote.
Davis has published six collections of fiction, including The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (1976) and Break It Down (1986), a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award.
In October 2003, Davis received a MacArthur Fellowship.
Davis was a distinguished speaker at the 2004 &NOW Festival at the University of Notre Dame.
She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.
Her most recent collections were Varieties of Disturbance, a finalist for the National Book Award published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007, and Can't and Won't (2013).
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (2009) contains all her fiction up to 2008.
Davis has also translated Proust, Flaubert, Blanchot, Foucault, Michel Butor, Michel Leiris, Pierre Jean Jouve and other French writers, as well as Belgian novelist Conrad Detrez and the Dutch writer A. L. Snijders.
Davis has been described as "the master of a literary form largely of her own invention."
Some of her "stories" are only one or two sentences.
Davis has compared these works to skyscrapers in the sense that they are surrounded by an imposing blank expanse.
Michael LaPointe writing in the LA Review of Books goes so far as to say while "Lydia Davis did not invent flash fiction, ... she is so far and away its most eminent contemporary practitioner".
She is a professor of creative writing at the University at Albany, SUNY, and was a Lillian Vernon Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University in 2012.
Davis was announced as the winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize on 22 May 2013.
The official announcement of Davis's award on the Man Booker Prize website described her work as having "the brevity and precision of poetry".
The judging panel chair Christopher Ricks commented, "There is vigilance to her stories, and great imaginative attention. Vigilance as how to realise things down to the very word or syllable; vigilance as to everybody's impure motives and illusions of feeling."
Davis won £60,000 as part of the biennial award.
She is widely considered "one of the most original minds in American fiction today."
She declined to sell her book, Our Strangers, on Amazon.