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Biography Lydia Davis lives in upstate New York and is the author of a novel, The End of the Story (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995), and the short story collections Break It Down (FSG, 1986), Almost No Memory (FSG, 1997), and Samuel Johnson Is Indignant (McSweeney's, 2001). Davis has also translated numerous works of French literature, most recently Proust's Swann's Way (Viking Press, 2003). She is the recipient of the Whiting Writer's Award (1988), the French-American Foundation Translation Award (1992), a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Lannan Literary Award (1998). Additionally, Davis was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for Fiction and was honored for her translation work with the French Insignia of the Order of Arts and Letters. Most recently, Davis was chosen as a 2003 MacArthur Fellow. Her work has appeared in many literary journals, including Conjunctions, Harper's, Hambone, Antaeus, The Paris Review, and McSweeney's, and has been collected in the Best American Short Stories of 1997 (edited by Annie Proulx) and the KGB Bar Reader, among others. - - - - Books Cape Cod Diary (Belladonna Books, 2003)—out of print Contributor, Here Lies (Trip Street Press, 2001) Samuel Johnson Is Indignant (McSweeney's, 2001) C'est Fini (La Découverte, August 1998) Blind Date (Chax Press, 1998) Almost No Memory (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997) The End of the Story (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995) Break It Down (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986) In a House Besieged (Dog Hair Press,1984) Story, and Other Stories (The Figures, 1983) Sketches for a Life of Wassill (Station Hill Press, 1981) The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (Living Hand, 1976) - - - - Translations Upcoming 2005, translation of Proust's In the Shadow of the Young Girls in Flower, the second volume of In Search of Lost Time, for Viking Translator, with Norman Cole, Serge Garronsky, and Cole Swensen, Distant Noise by Jean Fremon (Avec Books, 2003) Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (Viking Press, 2003) Translator, with John Sturrock, The Life of Henry Brulard by Stendhal (New York Review of Books Classics, 2002) The Station Hill Blanchot Reader: Fiction and Literary Essays by Maurice Blanchot (Station Hill/Barrytown, 1999) The One Who Was Standing Apart from Me by Maurice Blanchot (Station Hill/Barrytown, Ltd., 1999) Translator, XY by Elizabeth Badinter (Columbia University Press, April 1997) Scratches by Michel Leiris (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) Scraps by Michel Leiris (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) The Rendezvous: A Novel by Justine Lévy (Scribner, 1997) Hecate by Pierre Jean Jouve (Marlboro Press/University Press, 1997) Vagadu by Pierre Jean Jouve (Marlboro Press/University Press,1997) Florviller and Courveal by Marquis de Sade (Libertine Reader, 1997) No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon (Libertine Reader, 1997) The Story of a Modern Greek Woman by Abbé Prévost (Libertine Reader, 1997) On the Education of Women by Choderlos de Laclos (Libertine Reader, 1997) The Desert World by Pierre Jean Jouve (Marlboro Press/University Press, 1996) Hélène by Pierre Jean Jouve (Marlboro Press/University Press, 1995) Aerea in the Forests of Manhattan by Emmanuel Hocquard (Marlboro Press/University Press,1992) Phantom Life by Daniele Sallenave (Pantheon, 1989) Tocqueville: A Biography by Andre Jardin, with Robert Hemenway (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988) The Last Man by Maurice Blanchot (Columbia University Press, 1987) When the Time Comes by Maurice Blanchot (Station Hill, 1986) Marie Curie: A Life by Françoise Giroud (Holmes and Meier, 1986) Zone of Fire by Conrad Detrez (Harcourt Brace, 1986) The Spirit of Mediterranean Places by Michel Butor (Marlboro Press, 1986) The Gaze of Orpheus and Other Literary Essays by Maurice Blanchot (Station Hill, 1982) The Madness of the Day by Maurice Blanchot (Station Hill,1982) Death Sentence (original title: L'Arret de Mort) by Maurice Blanchot (Station Hill, 1982) Fantastic Photographs Attilio Colombo and others (Gordon Fraser Gallery, 1979) China from the 1911 Revolution to Liberation with Paul Auster, by Jean Chesneaux, and Jean and Marie-Claire Bergère (Harvester Press, 1977) Arabs and Israelis: A Dialogue Between Saul Friedlander and Mahmoud Hussein with Paul Auster (Holmes and Meier, 1975) - - - - Awards MacArthur "Genius" Grant, 2003 ALA Notable Book of the Year, 2001, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant Village Voice Favorite Book of the Year, 2001, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant Lannan Literary Award, 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1998 Voice Literary Supplement 25 Favorite Books of 1997, Almost No Memory Los Angeles Times 100 Best Books of 1997, Almost No Memory Fund for Poetry Award, 1992 French-American Foundation Translation Award, 1992, Rules of the Game I: Scratches by Michel Leiris National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Grant, 1989 Whiting Foundation Writer's Award, 1988 PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, 1987, Break It Down National Endowment for the Arts Grant for Translation, 1981 French Insignia of the Order of Arts and Letters, 1999 Ingram Merrill-Foundation Grant for Fiction, 1977, 1986 The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, 1978, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 - - - - Press and Interviews October 2003
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