Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947 in Northampton , Massachusetts ) is an American writer and translator , best known for her short stories.

Life

Lydia Davis is a daughter of American communists. When she was seven she was a student of the Ursulines in Graz for a year .

Davis teaches at the State University of New York in Albany in the state of New York Creative Writing .

Davis translated works by Maurice Blanchot into English as well as Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time .

honors and awards

• 2005: Admission to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• In 2013 she received the Man Booker International Prize for her complete works .
• 2013: Award of Merit Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters , Manhattan , New York City.

Works (selection)

• The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories. Living Hand, 1976.
• Sketches for a Life of Wassilly . Station Hill Press, 1981, ISBN 0-930794-45-1 .
• Story and Other Stories . The Figures, 1985, ISBN 0-935724-17-6 .
• Break It Down . Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986, ISBN 0-374-11653-9 .
• The end of the story . Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994, ISBN 0-374-14831-7 .

• The end of the story . Literaturverlag Droschl, 2009, ISBN 978-3-85420-761-0 .

• Almost no memory . Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997, ISBN 0-374-10281-3 .

• Almost no memory: Stories. 3. Edition. Literaturverlag Droschl, 2008, ISBN 978-3-85420-735-1 .

• Samuel Johnson Is Indignant . McSweeney's, 2001, ISBN 0-9703355-9-8 .
  • Samuel Johnson is angry . Translation by Klaus Hoffer . Vienna: Droschl, 2017
• 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 978-3-85420-784-9 .

• Proust, Blanchot, and a Woman in Red . Center for Writers and Translators, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9552963-5-2 .
• The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009, ISBN 978-0-374-27060-5 .
• The Cows . Sarabande Books. 2011, ISBN 978-1-932511-93-2 .
• Can't and Won't . Stories. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014, ISBN 978-0-374-11858-7 .
  • German by Klaus Hoffer : Can't and won't. Literaturverlag Droschl, 2014, ISBN 978-3-85420-955-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Lydia Davis in the catalog of the German National Library
• Portrait Lydia Davis. World through the magnifying glass. by Sacha Verna, Der Tagesspiegel , September 2, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willi Winkler : barrel night . Review, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 15, 2018, p. 14
2. ↑ Man Booker International prize goes to Lydia Davis. In: BBC. May 22, 2013, accessed May 23, 2013 .