Lily Tuck is an American

United States

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 novelist and short story writer whose novel The News from Paraguay won the 2004 National Book Award

National Book Award

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. Her novel Siam was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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. She has published four other novels, a collection of short stories, and a biography of Italian novelist Elsa Morante

Elsa Morante

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 (see "Works" below).

An American citizen born in Paris

Paris

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, Tuck now divides her time between New York City

New York City

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 and Maine

Maine

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; she has also lived in Thailand

Thailand

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 and (during her childhood) Uruguay

Uruguay

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 and Peru

Peru

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. 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

• I Married You For Happiness. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0802119919
• The News From Paraguay. New York: Harper Collins, 2004. ISBN 978-0066209449
• Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man. New York: Overlook Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0879517236
• The Woman Who Walked on Water. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. ISBN 978-1573225830
• Interviewing Matisse or the Woman Who Died Standing Up. New York: Knopf, 1991. ISBN 978-0394589350

Short Stories

• Limbo, or Other Places I Have Lived. New York: Harper Perennial, 2002. ISBN 978-0060934859

Biography

• Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante. New York: Harper Collins, 2008. ISBN 978-0061472565

External links

• Chapter One of The News from Paraguay.
• "Dream House," a short story by Lily Tuck.
• Author Bio, Photo, and National Book Award Acceptance Speech.
• National Public Radio All Things Considered interview with Tuck (audio file).
• Charlie Rose interview with Lily Tuck and 2004 National Book Award Finalists (video file).