Celebrated as both a writer of short fiction and a translator, Davis shows in her new collection, “Essays Two,” how the two practices are inextricably linked. Credit...Theo Cote Supported by By Wyatt ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Lydia Davis learned German after being plopped into a classroom in Graz, Austria, at the age of 7.

Gustave Flaubert was an apostle of le mot juste — using exactly the right word. Lydia Davis elegantly translates his masterpiece, Madame Bovary,... 'Bovary' Translation Does 'Le Mot Juste' Justice How ...

“All art is quite useless,” Oscar Wilde wrote, but even the jolt conveyed by that artful line means art does something, and so it must have some use. Or maybe it just feels useful — I don’t know; how ...

Albany, NY – Lydia Davis, leading short story author, New York State Writers Institute Writing Fellow, and UAlbany English Department faculty member, has been awarded the Man Booker International ...

Lydia Davis, “one of the best writers in America” (O. Magazine) and winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize, will speak Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 8 p.m. in the Biotech Auditorium, ...