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Name
  
Lily Tuck


Role
  
Novelist

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Awards
  
National Book Award for Fiction

Nominations
  
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Books
  
The News from Paraguay, The Double Life of Liliane, Siam: Or - The Woman, The woman who walk, Woman of Rome: A Life of Els

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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. Her novel Siam was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She has published four other novels, a collection of short stories, and a biography of Italian novelist Elsa Morante (see "Works" below).

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An American citizen born in Paris, Tuck now divides her time between New York City and Maine; she has also lived in Thailand and (during her childhood) Uruguay and Peru. 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".

Works

Novels

  • The Double Life of Liliane. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8021-2402-9
  • I Married You For Happiness. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8021-1991-9
  • The News from Paraguay. New York: Harper Collins, 2004. ISBN 978-0-06-620944-9
  • Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man. New York: Overlook Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0-87951-723-6
  • The Woman Who Walked on Water. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. ISBN 978-1-57322-583-0
  • Interviewing Matisse or the Woman Who Died Standing Up. New York: Knopf, 1991. ISBN 978-0-394-58935-0

    • Short Stories

  • Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived. New York: Harper Perennial, 2002. ISBN 978-0-06-093485-9
  • The House at Belle Fontaine: Stories, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-80212-016-8

    • Biography

  • Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante. New York: Harper Collins, 2008. ISBN 978-0-06-147256-5

    • References

    Lily Tuck Wikipedia
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