David Vann (writer)

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David Vann

David Vann (born October 19, 1966 on Adak Island, Alaska) is an author and creative writing professor at the University of Warwick in England.[1] His internationally-bestselling books have won 15 awards, including the Prix Médicis étranger[2] 2010 in France for best foreign novel (for Sukkwan Island) and the Premi Llibreter 2011[3] in Spain for best foreign novel, have appeared on more than 70 “Best Books of the Year” lists in 12 countries, and are being published in 19 languages. Vann was awarded the 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship[4] for creative arts, fiction, and has been a National Endowment of the Arts[5] fellow, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship,[6] and John L’Heureux fellow. His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Outside, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, the Sunday Times, the Observer, the Guardian, the Sunday Telegraph, the Financial Times, Elle UK, Esquire (UK Edition), Esquire Russia, National Geographic Adventure, Writer’s Digest, McSweeney's, and other magazines and newspapers. He has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, Nova, National Geographic, CNN, and E! Entertainment. His books have been selected for the New Yorker Book Club, the Times Book Club, the Samlerens Bogklub in Denmark, read on the BBC and North German Radio, and optioned for film. Vann has done hundreds of interviews and author events, including 40 international book festival.

Works

  • 2005 - A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea
  • 2008 - Legend of a Suicide, stories and a novella
  • 2011 - Caribou Island
  • 2011 - Last Day On Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter
  • 2012 - Dirt
  • 2013 - Goat Mountain
  • 2014 - Crocodile: Memoirs from a Mexican Drug-Running Port, published in Spanish only
  • 2014 - The Higher Blue, a story collection published only in languages other than English (French, German, Spanish, etc.).

Awards & Honors

Awards

For Legend of a Suicide/Sukkwan Island:

  • Prix Medicis Etranger, France, best foreign novel, 2010.
  • Premi Llibreter, Spain, best foreign novel, 2011.
  • Le Prix des Lecteurs de L’Express, France, 2010.
  • California Book Award, 2008.
  • Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction, 2007.
  • Henfield/Transatlantic Review Award.
  • 1st place in Fish Stories Best Fiction Contest.
  • 1st prize winner of River City Writing Awards.
  • Prix du Marais (regional public library prize in France), 2011.
  • Le Prix des Lecteurs de la Maison du Livre de Rodez (local bookstore prize), 2010.
  • Esquire Contributor’s Award 2008.

Listed:

  • The Story Prize, longlisted 2008.
  • Two Pushcart Prize nominations.
  • 2nd place Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society Prize for the novel.

For Caribou Island:

  • Le Prix de la librairie Nouvelle de Voiron (local bookstore prize), 2011.
  • Le Prix des Lyceens de Pau (local prize from a high school), 2011.

Finalist:

  • Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize (The Center for Fiction, New York), 2011.
  • Prix du Roman Fnac, France, 2011.
  • Le Prix Lire & Virgin, France, 2011.

For Last Day On Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter:

  • AWP Nonfiction Award, 2009.

For a short story, “It’s Not Yours”:

  • The Sunday Times Short Story Award shortlist (final 5 out of 1,150), 2010.

Bestseller Lists

For Legend of a Suicide/Sukkwan Island:

  • Livres Hebdo/IPSOS #9, 2010, also paperback list 2011, and #20 for the year in 2010.
  • Fnac (Spain) #2, 2011.
  • L’Express #7, 2010.
  • Amazon.fr #3 in all books, 2010.
  • Fnac (France) #7 in all books, #3 in fiction, 2010.
  • Datalib (France) #5, 2010.
  • Le Point, 2010.
  • Le Nouvel Observateur #16, 2010.
  • Foyles (UK) paperback fiction #8, 2010.
  • Ireland e-book #7, August 2010.

For Caribou Island:

  • Denver Post #4, 2011.
  • San Francisco Chronicle #10, 2011.
  • NCIBA #10, 2011.
  • Livres Hebdo/IPSOS, 2011.
  • L’Express 2011.
  • Amazon.fr 2011.
  • Fnac (France) 2011.
  • Datalib (France) 2011.

For A Mile Down:

  • Washington Post #4, 2005.
  • Los Angeles Times #7, 2005.

Best Books of the Year Lists

For Legend of a Suicide/Sukkwan Island:
Book of the Year (#1), El Economista (Mexico) 2010.[7]
Los Libreros Recomiendan[8] (#1) (Spain) 2010.
Top 100 Books for Summer (#1), ABC[9] (Spain) 2011.
Book of the Year (#1), Australian Literary Review[10] 2009.
Fiction of the Year (#2), Que Leer[11] (Spain) 2010.
Top Ten Foreign (#3), El Periodico[12] (Spain) 2010.
Book of the Year (#4), Culturamas[13] (Spain) 2010.
HUMO (Belgium) Best Books of 2010.
Het Parool (Netherlands) Best Books of 2010.
Anchorage Daily News,[14] Best Alaska Books 2010.
El Pais Best Books of Winter (Spain) 2010.
Le Point 20 Best Books of the Year[15] (France) 2010.
Technikart (France) 10 Best Books of the Year 2010.
De Standaard (Belgium) Best Books of the Year 2010.
Spectator (UK) Best Books of the Year 2010.
Juneau Empire,[16] Bright Moments of 2010.
Anchorage Daily News,[17] Who’s Up Who’s Down for 2010.
Sudwestrundfunk Bestenliste (Germany) May 2011.
Seminary Co-Op Bookstores[18] (Chicago), Top 20 Books 2010.
Times Literary Supplement Best Books of the Year 2009.
Observer[19] Best Books of the Year 2009.
Guardian[20] Books of the Decade: Your Best Books of 2009.
Guardian[21] Christmas Books 2009.
Guardian[22] 2009 Was The Year of the Short Story.
Guardian Books[23] You Wished You Published (Canongate).
The Independent[24] Culture Review of the Year 2009 (one of six books listed).
Sunday Business Post (Ireland) Critics’ Choice 2009 (one of 8 fiction books listed).
Telegraph[25] Best Books of the Year 2009.
London Evening Standard[26] Best Books of the Year 2009.
Esquire UK Gift List 2009 (one of two books listed).
Sunday Times[27] Best Books in Autumn 2009 and Year Ahead in Books.
New Statesman[28] Best Books of the Year 2009.
Australian Best Books of the Year 2009.
Times 3 To Watch 2009.
Harper’s Bazaar Autumn’s Essential Reads 2009.
Juneau Empire[29] Top 5 Alaskan Authors 2009.
New York Times[30] Notable Books 2008.
New York Times Editor’s Choice 2008.
Kansas City Star Top 10 Story Collections 2008.
San Francisco Chronicle[31] Top 50 Fiction and Poetry of 2008.

For Caribou Island:
Washington Post[32] Notable Books of 2011.
El Pais (Spain) Best Books of 2011.
National Post[33] (Canada), Philip Marchand’s Top 10 Books of 2011.
New Zealand Listener Best Books of 2011.
Daily Mail[34] (UK) 2011.
Anchorage Daily News,[35] Arts picks for 2011.
Juneau Empire[36] 2011.
New York Times[37] Editor’s Choice 2011.
France Culture and Telerama 2011.
The Millions 2011.
Kobo’s top eBooks 2011.
The Australian Books of the Year 2011.
Guardian,[38] Your Books of the Year 2011.
My Favorite Novels of 2011[39] (Ron Charles, Washington Post).
Los Libreros Recomiendan (Spain) 2011.
Go Mag (Spain) 2011.
El Corte Ingles (Spain), Top 8 Novels of 2011.
Los Libreros Recomiendan (Spain) 2011.
Vogue UK Top 5 to watch in 2011.
The Times, Hottest Reads in 2011.
The Daily Beast,[40] 2011′s Most Anticipated Books.
Les Inrockuptibles (France) 2011.
Sudwestrundfunk Bestenliste (Germany) June 2012.
#1 Books to look out for in 2011,[41] Australian Literary Review.

For Last Day On Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter:
NBCC Small Press Highlights[42] of 2011.

For Dirt:
Observer[43] Best Books of the Year 2012 New Statesman[44] Best Books of the Year 2012
Trouw (Netherlands) Best Books of the Year 2012
SWR-Bestenliste[45] (list by German critics)

References

  1. ↑ http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/about/people/permanentacademicstaffstaff3/vannprofessordavid
  2. ↑ http://www.franceculture.fr/2010-11-03-prix-medicis-2010-maylis-de-kerangal-david-vann-et-michel-pastoureau.html
  3. ↑ http://www.vilaweb.cat/noticia/3898630/20110615/premi-llibreter-2011-distingeix-blanca-busquets-david-vann-peter-schossow.html
  4. ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/17045-david-james-vann
  5. ↑ http://www.nea.gov/features/Writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=08_08
  6. ↑ http://creativewriting.stanford.edu/stegner-fellowship-complete-list-of-stegner-fellows
  7. ↑ http://eleconomista.com.mx/entretenimiento/2010/12/21/mejores-libros-2010
  8. ↑ http://www.loslibrerosrecomiendan.com/libros-recomendados/sukkwan-island-de-david-vann/
  9. ↑ http://www.abc.es/20110718/cultura-libros/abci-cien-libros-201107180003.html#.TiQG47Qk7x8.facebook
  10. ↑ http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/alr/index.php/theaustralian/comments/the_book_of_the_year/
  11. ↑ http://www.que-leer.com/10574/los-10-de-2010.html
  12. ↑ http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/ocio-y-cultura/20101228/top-narrativa-traducida/641586.shtml
  13. ↑ http://www.culturamas.es/blog/2010/12/25/43130/
  14. ↑ http://juneauempire.com/stories/123010/art_763409917.shtml
  15. ↑ http://www.lepoint.fr/livres/david-vann-sukkwan-island-25-11-2010-1269809_37.php
  16. ↑ http://juneauempire.com/stories/123010/art_763409917.shtml
  17. ↑ http://www.adn.com/2010/12/30/1625919/our-view-whos-up-whos-down-for.html
  18. ↑ http://www.semcoop.com/twenty-best-books-year
  19. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/22/books-of-the-year-2009
  20. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/dec/18/books-of-the-decade-2009
  21. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/dec/12/christmas-books-novels-roundup
  22. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/dec/29/1
  23. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/dec/19/publishing-year-kate-figes
  24. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/review-of-the-year-2009-culture-1847994.html
  25. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6669651/My-books-of-the-year.html
  26. ↑ http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/the-best-books-of-the-year-6775203.html
  27. ↑ http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/books/article182048.ece
  28. ↑ http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/11/barack-obama-book-world-love
  29. ↑ http://juneauempire.com/stories/123109/art_541403969.shtml
  30. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/books/review/100Notable-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
  31. ↑ http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/The-50-best-fiction-poetry-books-of-2008-3180036.php
  32. ↑ http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-12-09/entertainment/35286928_1_novel-chad-harbach-flawed-heroine
  33. ↑ http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/12/30/open-book-philip-marchands-top-10-books-of-2011/
  34. ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-2071647/Tired-TV-Try-feast-fiction.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
  35. ↑ http://www.adn.com/2011/12/22/2230994/arts-picks-for-2011.html
  36. ↑ http://juneauempire.com/art/2011-12-15/alaska-page#.UbKab77D_mI
  37. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/books/review/EdChoice-t.html?src=twrhp
  38. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/29/readers-books-of-the-year
  39. ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/my-favorite-novels-of-2011/2011/12/31/gIQAH4mcSP_blog.html
  40. ↑ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/01/02/most-anticipated-books-of-2011.html
  41. ↑ http://davidvann.com/awards/a-best-book-of-the-year/#1 Books to look out for in 2011, Australian Literary Review.
  42. ↑ http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/small-press-highlights-of-2011
  43. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/25/books-of-the-year-2012
  44. ↑ http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2012/11/read-all-about-it-ns-books-year-2012?page=0,17
  45. ↑ http://www.swr.de/swr2/literatur/bestenliste/-/id=98456/1fuhjty/index.html

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