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Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis is the author of several story collections and one novel.

Her story collection Break It Down was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and her most recent collection, Varieties of Disturbance, was a finalist for the National Book Award. She was made a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters for her work as a translator of Proust, Blanchot, Foucault, Michel Leiris, and other French writers.

Davis received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003. She is a professor of creative writing at the University at Albany-SUNY and lives in upstate New York.


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