Wednesday, February 6, 2008
5:30 pm
Sanders Hall, 212
Lydia Davis, Writer-in-Residence. An American virtuoso, Davis is an innovator of the short story form. She is the author of four collections of short fiction, including Varieties of Disturbance (2007), Break It Down, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant and a novel, The End of the Story. Davis is also the translator of numerous avant-garde French novels, memoirs, and volumes of literary criticism, including works by Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, and most recently Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, which received the French-American Foundation Annual Translation Prize.
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