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Lydia Davis

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Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven story collections. Her collection Varieties of Disturbance: 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.

Lydia Davis Books

Essays Two book cover

Essays Two

Lydia Davis
Chéri and The End of Chéri book cover

Chéri and The End of Chéri

Colette
Night Train book cover

Night Train

A. L. Snijders
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Essays One

Lydia Davis
Letters to His Neighbor book cover

Letters to His Neighbor

Marcel Proust
The Life of Henry Brulard book cover

The Life of Henry Brulard

Stendhal
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Freeman's: Arrival

John Freeman
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A Manual for Cleaning Women

Lucia Berlin
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Bomb: The Author Interviews

BOMB Magazine
Alfred Ollivant's Bob, Son of Battle book cover

Alfred Ollivant's Bob, Son of Battle

Alfred Ollivant
Almost No Memory book cover

Almost No Memory

Lydia Davis
Can't and Won't book cover

Can't and Won't

Lydia Davis
The End of the Story book cover

The End of the Story

Lydia Davis
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Pierre Reverdy

Pierre Reverdy
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The Cows

Lydia Davis
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis
Madame Bovary book cover

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert
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Break It Down

Lydia Davis
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Varieties of Disturbance

Lydia Davis
Swann's Way book cover

Swann's Way

Marcel Proust
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