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  • Lydia Davis

    …not until 11 years later—with Break It Down (1986), her fourth collection—that she was a finalist for a significant literary prize, the 1987 PEN/Hemingway Award. She subsequently gained a strong following, particularly among writers and literary critics, and some of her earlier collections were reissued. She is credited with having…

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    …not until 11 years later—with Break It Down (1986), her fourth collection—that she was a finalist for a significant literary prize, the 1987 PEN/Hemingway Award. She subsequently gained a strong following, particularly among writers and literary critics, and some of her earlier collections were reissued. She is credited with having…

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