{"id":52887,"date":"2013-05-22T18:33:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T22:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=52887"},"modified":"2013-05-22T19:01:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T23:01:21","slug":"lydia-davis-wins-booker-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/22\/lydia-davis-wins-booker-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Lydia Davis Wins Booker Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_52802\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Lydia-Davis-Paris-Review.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52802\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52892\" alt=\"Lydia-Davis-Paris-Review\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Lydia-Davis-Paris-Review.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Lydia-Davis-Paris-Review.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Lydia-Davis-Paris-Review-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-52802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit Theo Cote<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hats off to our beloved contributor Lydia Davis, who was just awarded the Man Booker International Prize, Great Britain\u2019s most prestigious prize for fiction. In the judges\u2019 citation, Sir Christopher Ricks asked how best to describe Davis\u2019s works:\u00a0\u201cJust how to categorise them? They have been called stories but could equally be miniatures, anecdotes, essays, jokes, parables, fables, texts, aphorisms or even apophthegms, prayers or simply observations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/search?q=lydia+davis\">here<\/a> to read some of Davis\u2019s most recent fiction in <em>The Paris Review<\/em>\u2014or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to receive our next issue, with five of her newest stories (or miniatures, or anecdotes, or essays, or whatever you\u2019d like to call them).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hats off to our beloved contributor Lydia Davis, who was just awarded the Man Booker International Prize, Great Britain\u2019s most prestigious prize for fiction. 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