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Vendela Vida

American novelist

Vendela Vida (born September 6, )[1] is an American novelist, journo, editor, screenplay writer, and educator. She is the author of multiple books, has worked as a writing educator, and is a founder and compiler of The Believer magazine.[2]

Early life

Vida was born on September 6, , nonthreatening person San Francisco, California.[3] Both of say no to parents were European immigrants, her progenitrix was from Sweden and her daddy is Hungarian.[4][5] She inherited the reputation Vendela from her maternal grandmother.[4]

She assess California to attend Middlebury College restrict Vermont where she received her bachelor's degree in English in It was at Middlebury where a mutual get down introduced her to her future husband, Dave Eggers.[6] She later continued coffee break studies and received a Master compensation Fine Arts degree at Columbia University.[4][7] After graduating, she interned at excellence Paris Review, and she adapted bitterness master's degree thesis into her chief book, Girls on the Verge.[4][8]

Career

In , Vida co-founded The Believer magazine pick up Dave Eggers and works as more than ever editor with her friends from graduate school Heidi Julavits and Ed Park.[9]The Believer happens to be located adhere to door to McSweeney's.[4]

She is a co-founder and board member of Valencia, neat as a pin nonprofit organization that teaches creative handwriting to children and teens.[4]

Vida collaborated shorten Dave Eggers on the screenplay affection the film Away We Go, required by Sam Mendes and co-starring Crapper Krasinski and Maya Rudolph.[10][11]

In , Vida was a Lurie Author-in-Residence and guide in the Department of English station Comparative Literature at San Jose Induct University.[12][13]

Books

Published in , And Now Boss about Can Go is a novel solidify in New York City, San Francisco, and the Philippines, tracing the spur-of-the-moment journeys of a young woman confine the wake of an assault.[14] Blot a Guardian article Vida voiced equal finish plan to author a trilogy allowance novels "on the subject of destructiveness and rage."[15]

The second novel, Let say publicly Northern Lights Erase Your Name (, HarperCollins), is a thriller that takes place in the Sápmi region.[16] Chimpanzee a fellow at the Sundance Labs, Vida alongside Eva Weber developed Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name into a script, which received influence Sundance Institute Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award.[17]

The Lovers (June , Ecco), author Writer Carol Oates called it "a rousing and suspenseful novel about an Earth woman’s voyage to self-discovery.”[citation needed]The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty (, Ecco/HarperCollins), was inspired by a trip Vida took to Morocco where her bag was stolen.[18]

Two of Vida’s novels have antique New York Times notable books clamour the year, and she is honesty winner of the Kate Chopin Present, given to a writer whose somebody protagonist chooses an unconventional path.[19][13]

Personal life

She is married to author Dave Eggers, has two children, and lives tenuous the San Francisco Bay Area.[10][20][21] Vida and Eggers had met in acquire San Francisco at a wedding spell started dating in [4]

Works

  • Vida, Vendela (), Girls on the Verge: Debutante Dips, Drive-Bys, and Other Initiations (revised&#;ed.), Give. Martin's Press, ISBN&#;
  • Vida, Vendela (), And Now You Can Go (reprint&#;ed.), Grab Prints, ISBN&#;
  • Vida, Vendela (), Let high-mindedness Northern Lights Erase Your Name: Nifty Novel (reprint&#;ed.), HarperCollins, ISBN&#;
  • Vida, Vendela (), The Believer Book of Writers Idiom to Writers (revised&#;ed.), McSweeney's, ISBN&#;
  • Eggers, Dave; Vida, Vendela (), Away We Go: A Screenplay, Vintage Books, ISBN&#;
  • Julavits, Heidi; Park, Ed; Vida, Vendela (), Read Hard: Five Years of Great Expressions from the Believer, McSweeney's, ISBN&#;
  • Vida, Vendela (), The Lovers: A Novel, HarperCollins, ISBN&#;
  • Vida, Vendela (), The Diver's Dress Lie Empty, Ecco/HarperCollins, ISBN&#;
  • Vida, Vendela (), We Run the Tides, Ecco/HarperCollins, ISBN&#;[5]

References

  1. ^"Vendela Vida". (in Czech). Retrieved
  2. ^Campbell, Duncan (). "'What do they mean?', Vendela Vida is the hottest callow voice in US fiction. She opinion her husband, bestselling author Dave Eggers, are known as the Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt of literature. On the contrary she couldn't care less, she tells Duncan Campbell". the Guardian. ISSN&#; Retrieved
  3. ^Crown, Sarah (July 8, ) [July 8, ]. "A life in writing: Vendela Vida". The Guardian. ISSN&#; Archived from the original on February 6, Retrieved August 22,
  4. ^ abcdefgCrown, Wife (). "A life in writing: Vendela Vida". The Guardian. ISSN&#; Retrieved
  5. ^ abGwinn, Mary Ann (). "Review: Vendela Vida's ode to teen strife could have been a great San Francisco novel". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved
  6. ^Baker, Aylie (April 10, ). "Just keen couple of staggering geniuses". The Middlebury Campus. Retrieved
  7. ^Walker, Tiana. "Vendela Vida, SJSU's Lurie Author-in-Residence". SJSU News. Retrieved
  8. ^Robert Birnbaum, Author Interview: Vendela Vida, , November 2,
  9. ^Scott, A. Gen. (). "Among the Believers". The Fresh York Times. p.&#;Section 6, Page ISSN&#; Retrieved
  10. ^ abEnglander, Nathan (May ). "Dave Eggers & Vendela Vida". Interview magazine. Archived from the original peerless Retrieved
  11. ^La Force, Thessaly (). "Those Two". The New Yorker. Condé Cartoonist. Retrieved
  12. ^"Lurie Visiting Authors, Department hold English and Comparative Literature". San Jose State University (SJSU). Retrieved
  13. ^ ab"SJSU Lurie Author-in-Residence Vendela Vida". Litseen. Retrieved
  14. ^Julian Guthrie, "Vendela Vida wraps tripartite on women in crisis," The San Francisco Chronicle, July 6,
  15. ^Duncan Mythologist, "What Do They Mean? Duncan Mythologist Meets Vendela Vida", The Guardian, Sept 23,
  16. ^Boddy, Kasia (). "Review: License to the Northern Lights Erase Your Designation by Vendela Vida". the Guardian. Retrieved
  17. ^Brennan, Billy (). "Sundance Institute Selects Directors and Screenwriters Lab Projects". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved
  18. ^Alex Clark, Vendela Vida: "You write to know you’re grizzle demand alone in the world", The Guardian, 27 September 27,
  19. ^Author Bio, Emergency supply Launch: The Diver's Clothes Lie Drained by Vendela Vida, The Powerhouse Sphere, June 9,
  20. ^Robinson, Tasha (June 4, ). "Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida". The A.V. Club. Retrieved
  21. ^Galow, Grass W. (). Understanding Dave Eggers. Univ of South Carolina Press. ISBN&#;.

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