Lily Tuck


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 novel Siam was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She is a Guggenheim Fellow.
She has published five other novels, two collections of short stories, and a biography of Italian novelist Elsa Morante.

Life

An American citizen born in Paris, Tuck now divides her time between New York City and Maine; she has also lived in Thailand and 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
Short Stories
Biography