David Vann

David Vann (2020)

David Vann (born October 19, 1966 on Adak Island , Alaska) is an American writer.

life and work

David Vann was born on Adak Island in 1966 as the son of a dentist on the US military base there and grew up in Ketchikan (Alaska) with his sister who was five years younger than him . His father killed himself when David Vann was 13, a subject he later picked up in his book Legend of a Suicide . David Vann graduated from Cornell University in 1994 with an MFA ( Master of Fine Arts ). From 1994 to 1996 he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University .

Vann taught creative writing at Stanford and the University of San Francisco . He was an assistant professor at Florida State University . Vann lives in New Zealand and teaches at the University of Warwick (2017). Regarding his writing behavior, he says that he does not revise any line of his manuscript.

Vann published his short stories in the Atlantic Monthly and Esquire, among others .

Awards (selection)

• 2007: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction for Legend of a Suicide
• 2010: Prix ​​Médicis étranger for Sukkwan Island

Works

• A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea . Thunder's Mouth Press, New York 2005, ISBN 1-56025-710-5 .
• Legend of a Suicide . University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst 2008, ISBN 978-1-55849-672-9 . (Short stories, paperback was published by Penguin in 2009, ISBN 978-0-141-04378-4 .)
• Sukkwan Island , a novella from Legend of a Suicide . ( In the shadow of the father , translated into German by Miriam Mandelkow. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-42229-8 .)
• Caribou Island . Harper, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-06-187572-4 . ( Die Unermesslichkeit , translated into German by Miriam Mandelkow. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-42296-0 .)
• Dirt . HarperCollins, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-06-212103-5 . ( Dreck , translated into German by Miriam Mandelkow. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-46533-2 .)
• Goat Mountain . Harper, New York 2013, ISBN 0-06-212109-X . ( Goat Mountain , translated into German by Miriam Mandelkow. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2014.)
• Aquarium . Grove Atlantic, New York 2015, ISBN 080212352X . ( Aquarium , translated into German by Miriam Mandelkow. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-42536-7 .)
• Bright Air Black . First Grove Atlantic, New York 2017, ISBN 978-0-8021-2580-4 .
• Halibut On The Moon . Grove Press, New York 2019, ISBN 978-0-8021-2893-5 . ( Momentum , translated into German by Cornelius Reiber. Hanser, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-446-26594-3 .)

Several books by David Vann have been published in German translation as audio books by Parlando Verlag , all read by Christian Brückner .

Web links

• Literature by and about David Vann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about David Vann in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Author website by David Vann (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ David Vann: David Vann: Where are all the men in my family? In: The Guardian . October 24, 2009, accessed March 26, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Interview with David Vann. Penguin Books , archived from the original on October 28, 2010 ; accessed on December 1, 2009 (English, interview on the lower half of the page). 
3. ^ Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.
4. ^ Libby Fairhurst: FSU Assistant Professor lands NEA Grant for Book on Adventures at Sea , at Florida State University, January 2008.
5. ↑ Small Talk , in: Financial Times , April 22, 2017, p. 11
6. ^ Winners of the 2007 AWP Award Series . The Association of Writers & Writing Programs. (Accessed December 1, 2009.)
7. ^ Audiobooks by David Vann published by Parlando Verlag.