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Lily Tuck (born 1939) is an American novelist and short story writer whose novel The News from Paraguay won the 2004 National Book Award. Her novel Siam was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She has published three other novels, a collection of short stories, and a biography of Italian novelist Elsa Morante (see "Works" below).

An American citizen born in Paris, Tuck now divides her time between New York City and Maine; she has also lived in Thailand and (during her childhood) 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".

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