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Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis’s most recent book is Can’t and Won’t: Stories. Her essay in this issue is based on a keynote address given at the awards ceremony of the French-American Foundation on June 7, 2016. At the ceremony, she was named the Foundation’s first Translator Laureate.
 (December 2016)

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