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David Vann was born October 19, 1966 on
Adak Island
Adak Island ( ale, Adaax, russian: Адак) or Father Island is an island near the western extent of the Andreanof Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. Alaska's southernmost town, Adak, is located on the island. The island has a lan ...
in the
Aleutian Islands
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Alaska
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. He is a novelist and short story writer, and is currently a professor of creative writing at the
University of Warwick in England. Vann received a
Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a
National Endowment of the Arts fellow, a
Wallace Stegner fellow, and a
John L’Heureux fellow. His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. His books have been published in 23 languages and have won 14 prizes and been on 83 'best books of the year' lists. They have been selected for the ''
New Yorker
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'' Book Club, the ''Times'' Book Club, the Samlerens Bogklub in Denmark and have been optioned for film by Inkfactory and Haut et Court.
He has appeared in documentaries with the
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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
* 2015 — ''Aquarium''
* 2017 — ''Bright Air Black''
*2019 — ''Halibut on the Moon''
Prizes
* 2007 —
Grace Paley
Grace Paley (December 11, 1922 – August 22, 2007) was an American short story author, poet, teacher, and political activist.
Paley wrote three critically acclaimed collections of short stories, which were compiled in the Pulitzer Prize and Na ...
Prize for Short Fiction for ''Legend of a Suicide/Sukkwan Island''
* 2008 —
California Book Award for ''Legend of a Suicide/Sukkwan Island''
* 2009 —
AWP Nonfiction Award for ''Last Day on Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter''
* 2010 —
Prix Medicis Étranger (best foreign novel), France, for ''Legend of a Suicide/Sukkwan Island''
* 2010 — Le Prix des Lecteurs de L’Express, France, for ''Legend of a Suicide/Sukkwan Island''
* 2011 — Premi Llibreter, Spain, best foreign novel for ''Legend of a Suicide/Sukkwan Island''
* 2013 —
St. Francis College Literary Prize
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for ''Dirt''
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Henfield/Transatlantic Review Award for ''Legend of a Suicide/Sukkwan Island''
* 2010 — Le Prix des Lecteurs de la Maison du Livre de Rodez for ''Legend of a Suicide''
* 2011 — Prix du Marais (regional public library prize in France) for ''Legend of a Suicide''
* 2011 — Le Prix de la librairie Nouvelle de Voiron for ''Caribou Island''
* 1st place in Fish Stories Best Fiction Contest for ''Legend of a Suicide''
* 1st prize winner of River City Writing Awards for ''Legend of a Suicide''
* Le Prix de la Médiathèque de Saint-Genis-les-Ollières for ''Legend of a Suicide''
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''
References
External links
Author WebsiteKGNU Claudia Cragg radio interview with David Vann on 'Caribou Island'
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1966 births
Living people
Writers from Alaska
American short story writers
American academics of English literature
Stanford University alumni
University of San Francisco alumni
Prix Médicis étranger winners
St. Francis College Literary Prize
Stegner Fellows
People from Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska