![]() ![]() When Davis won the Man Booker International prize in 2013, Ali Smith called her a “daring, excitingly intelligent and often wildly comic writer who reminds you… what words such as economy, precision and originality really mean”.īesides eight story collections and one novel, Davis has published more than a dozen translations, most notably of Madame Bovary and the first volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time as well as, more recently, Night Train, a collection of very short stories by the Dutch author AL Snijders. ![]() I ndex Entry, the shortest of the very short stories for which the American writer Lydia Davis is best known, runs to just four words: “Christian, I’m not a”. ![]()
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