Lily Tuck is a prominent American author, well-known for her fiction work. She was born in Paris, France, in 1938, and spent her childhood in various countries, including Peru and Uruguay. These early experiences of living abroad have significantly influenced her writing, providing her with a unique perspective and a heightened sense of rootlessness and dislocation. As an adult, she has continued to live in different places, including Thailand and New York City, where she currently resides.
Tuck's work is highly acclaimed, and she has received numerous awards and nominations for her novels and short stories. Her novel, The News from Paraguay, won the prestigious National Book Award for Fiction in 2004, while her novel Siam was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2000. In addition to her fiction work, Tuck has also written a biography of the Italian novelist Elsa Morante.
Tuck's writing is characterized by her exploration of the themes of dislocation and rootlessness, which she attributes to her experiences of living in various countries. Her characters, who are often women, undergo physical displacement or experience some form of loss, reflecting her own sense of dislocation. Tuck's work has been published in several prestigious outlets, including the New Yorker and the Paris Review. In addition to her fiction work, she has also published a collection of stories, Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived.