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Lily Tuck

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American writer (born 1938)

United StatesWritersBorn 1938 · age 87
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Lily Tuck is an American novelist and short story writer whose novel The News from Paraguay won the 2004 National Book Award for Fiction. Her 2008 biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante won the Premio Elsa Morante. Her novel Siam was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Awards 2

2018Guggenheim Fellowship
2004National Book Award

Writers from United States 6

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Lily Tuck is an American novelist and short story writer whose novel The News from Paraguay won the 2004 National Book Award for Fiction. Her 2008 biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante won the Premio Elsa Morante. Her novel Siam was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She is a Guggenheim Fellow.

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United States
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Writers
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living
Dates
Born 1938 · age 87
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11 languages

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