Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis ( born July 15, 1947 in Northampton, Massachusetts) is an American writer and translator, best known for her short stories. She teaches at the State University of New York at Albany in New York State Creative Writing.

Lydia Davis, Marcel Proust's novel translated Looking for the lost time into English.

Honors and Awards

Selected Works

  • The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories, Living hand. In 1976.
  • Sketches for a Life of Wassilly. Station Hill Press. 1981 ISBN. 978-0-930794-45-3.
  • Story and Other Stories. The Figures. 1985 ISBN. 978-0-935724-17-2.
  • Break It Down. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1986 ISBN. 0-374-11653-9.
  • The End of the Story. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In 1994. ISBN 978-0-374-14831-7
  • The end of the story. Literaturverlag Droschl. , 2009. ISBN 978-3854207610
  • Almost No Memory. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1997 ISBN. 978-0-374-10281-4.
  • Almost no memory: Stories. Literaturverlag Droschl. 3rd edition. , 2008. ISBN 978-3854207351
  • Samuel Johnson Is Indignant. McSweeney's. , 2001. ISBN 978-0-9703355-9-3
  • Varieties of Disturbance. Farrar Straus and Giroux, New York City, USA 2007, ISBN 978-0-374-28173-1.
  • Forms of disturbance. Literaturverlag Droschl. , 2011. ISBN 978-3854207849
  • Proust, Blanchot, and a Woman in Red Centre for Writers and Translators. , 2007. ISBN 9780955296352
  • The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. , 2009. ISBN 978-0-374-27060-5
  • The Cows. Sarabande Books., 2011. ISBN 9781932511932
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