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The News from Paraguay

by Lily Tuck

National Book · 2004 · Winner
Literary FictionISBN 9780061442599

Award History

AwardYearStatus
National Book Award for Fiction2004Winner

About the Author

Lily TuckAmerican

Lily Tuck (born October 10, 1938, in Paris, France) is an American novelist and short story writer best known for her National Book Award-winning novel The News from Paraguay (2004), as well as Siam (PEN/Faulkner nominee, 2000), her biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante (Premio Elsa Morante, 2008), and recent works like The Rest is Memory (2024); she is also a Guggenheim Fellow.

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