Lydia Davis

 

 Lydia Davis (born 1947) is a contemporary American writer noted for her short stories. Davis is also a novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, and has produced several new translations of French literary classics, including Proust's Swann’s Way and Flaubert's Madame Bovary.

Awards

• 1986 PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, for Break It Down
• 1988 Whiting Foundation Writers' Award for Fiction
• "St. Martin," a short story that first appeared in Grand Street, was included in The Best American Short Stories 1997.
• 1997 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1998 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
• 1999 Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for fiction and translation
• "Betrayal," a short-short story that first appeared in Hambone, was included in The Best American Poetry 1999
• "A Mown Lawn," a short-short- story that first appeared in McSweeney's, was included in The Best American Poetry 2001
• 2003 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 2007 National Book Award Fiction Finalist, for Varieties of Disturbance: Stories
• "Men," a short-short story that first appeared in 32 Poems, was included in The Best American Poetry 2009
• 2013 American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Award of Merit Meda
• 2013 Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement
• 2013 Man Booker International Prize^.

Selected works

 

• The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories
• Sketches for a Life of Wassilly.
• Story and Other Stories.
• Break It Down.
• The End of the Story. 
• Almost No Memory.
• Samuel Johnson Is Indignant.
• Varieties of Disturbance.
• Proust, Blanchot, and a Woman in Red.
• The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis.
• The Cows.