David Vann (writer)

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David Vann

David Vann was born October 19, 1966, on Adak Island in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. He is a novelist and short story writer, and was formerly a professor of creative writing at the University of Warwick in England. [1] Vann received a Guggenheim Fellowship [2] and has been a National Endowment of the Arts [3] fellow, a Wallace Stegner fellow, [4] and a John L’Heureux fellow. His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. His books have been published in 23 languages [5] and have won 14 prizes [6] and been on 83 'best books of the year' lists. [7] They have been selected for the New Yorker Book Club, the Times Book Club, the Samlerens Bogklub in Denmark and have been optioned for film by Inkfactory and Haut et Court. [8] [9] He has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, CNN, PBS, National Geographic, and E! Entertainment.

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Works

Prizes

Prize Lists

Finalist

2nd place Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society Prize for the novel for Legend of a Suicide

2011—Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, The Center for Fiction, New York for Caribou Island

2011—Prix du Roman Fnac, France, second place for Caribou Island

2011—Le Prix Lire & Virgin, France, for Caribou Island

2012—PEN CENTER USA Literary Awards finalist in Creative Nonfiction for Last Day On Earth

2012—The Sunday Times Short Story Award shortlist (final 5 out of 1,150), for a short story, “It’s Not Yours”

2013—Prix du Festival Lire en Poche de Gradignan, for Caribou Island

2013—finalist, Grand prix de Littérature policière, France, for Dirt

2013—finalist, California Book Award in Fiction for Goat Mountain

Longlisted

2008—The Story Prize, for Legend of a Suicide

2013—International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Caribou Island

2013—Chautauqua Prize, for Goat Mountain

2014—International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Dirt

Two Pushcart Prize nominations for Legend of a Suicide

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References

  1. ↑ "Professor David Vann". www2.warwick.ac.uk. Archived from the original on July 7, 2012.
  2. ↑ "David James Vann - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on April 16, 2011. Retrieved February 7, 2012.
  3. ↑ "NEA Writers' Corner: David Vann". Archived from the original on March 2, 2012. Retrieved February 7, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Former Stegner Fellows | Creative Writing Program". creativewriting.stanford.edu. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Books". Author David Vann. September 18, 2012. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Awards". Author David Vann. September 18, 2012. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
  7. ↑ "80 Best Books of the Year Lists". Author David Vann. September 19, 2012. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
  8. ↑ Jaafar, Ali (April 20, 2015). "The Ink Factory Options David Vann's Novel 'Aquarium'". Deadline. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Legend of a Suicide Under Option with Haute Et Court in Paris" (PDF). www.casarotto.co.uk.
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