Lily Tuck | |
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Born | Paris, France | October 10, 1938
Nationality | American |
Education | Radcliffe College ( BA) [1] |
Genre | short story, novel |
Notable awards | National Book Award for Fiction |
Lily Tuck (born October 10, 1938) is an American novelist and short story writer whose novel The News from Paraguay won the 2004 National Book Award for Fiction. [2] Her novel Siam was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. [3] She is a Guggenheim Fellow. [4]
She has published five other novels, two collections of short stories, and a biography of Italian novelist Elsa Morante.
An American citizen born in Paris, Tuck now divides her time between New York City and Islesboro, Maine; [5] she has also lived in Thailand and (during her childhood) Uruguay and Peru. [6] Tuck has stated that "living in other countries has given me a different perspective as a writer. It has heightened my sense of dislocation and rootlessness. ... I think this feeling is reflected in my characters, most of them women whose lives are changed by either a physical displacement or a loss of some kind". [7]
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Lily Tuck | |
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Born | Paris, France | October 10, 1938
Nationality | American |
Education | Radcliffe College ( BA) [1] |
Genre | short story, novel |
Notable awards | National Book Award for Fiction |
Lily Tuck (born October 10, 1938) is an American novelist and short story writer whose novel The News from Paraguay won the 2004 National Book Award for Fiction. [2] Her novel Siam was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. [3] She is a Guggenheim Fellow. [4]
She has published five other novels, two collections of short stories, and a biography of Italian novelist Elsa Morante.
An American citizen born in Paris, Tuck now divides her time between New York City and Islesboro, Maine; [5] she has also lived in Thailand and (during her childhood) Uruguay and Peru. [6] Tuck has stated that "living in other countries has given me a different perspective as a writer. It has heightened my sense of dislocation and rootlessness. ... I think this feeling is reflected in my characters, most of them women whose lives are changed by either a physical displacement or a loss of some kind". [7]
Novels
Short Stories
Biography