Jeff VanderMeer

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Jeff Vandermeer (2007)

Jeff VanderMeer (born July 7, 1968 in Pennsylvania ) is an American author of fantastic stories.

Life

He spent his childhood in the Fiji Islands with his parents who worked for the Peace Corps . He studied journalism, then English and finally Latin American history at the University of Florida , but did not complete his studies. In 1992 he was a participant in the renowned Clarion workshop for budding science fiction and fantasy authors, where he subsequently also worked as a lecturer. He later published educational articles on creative writing in the student magazine Merlin's Pen . VanderMeer is a founding member of the Council for Literature of the Fantastic at the University of Rhode Island .

He calls his works magical realism , and in fact they refer to the works of Jorge Luis Borges , Angela Carter and Vladimir Nabokov , among others . VanderMeer also plays and ties in with authors who are very exotic for today's Anglo-American world, such as Alfred Kubin and Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando . In particular with his short stories, collected in City of Saints and Madmen , VanderMeer is considered an important representative of slipstream literature in science fiction.

In addition to his work as a writer, he works as a lecturer for various publishers and publishes anthologies.

In 2018, the novel Annihilation was made into a film by Alex Garland , who also wrote the screenplay with VanderMeer. The film was distributed worldwide by Netflix .

Awards

  • 1994: Rhysling Award for Flight Is For Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over
  • 2000: World Fantasy Award for the novel The Transformation of Martin Lake (Eng. The Metamorphosis of Martin Lake )
  • 2003: World Fantasy Award for the anthology Leviathan 3
  • 2012: World Fantasy Award for the anthology The Weird (together with Ann VanderMeer )
  • 2015: Nebula Award for the novel Annihilation
  • 2012: British Fantasy Award for the anthology The Weird (together with Ann VanderMeer)
  • 2017: Locus Award for the anthology The Big Book of Science Fiction (together with Ann VanderMeer)

Works

Novels

  • Dradin, In Love , 1996
  • The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of Ambergris, by Duncan Shriek , 1999
  • Veniss Underground , 2003
  • Shriek: An Afterword , 2006
  • Predator: South China Seas , 2008
  • Finch , 2009
  • Halo: Evolutions, short stories from the Halo universe , Panini Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-8332-2125-5
  • Annihilation - Southern Reach Trilogy 1 , 2014; filmed by Alex Garland under the title Extinction
    • Extinction - Volume 1 of the Southern Reach Trilogy, German by Michael Kellner; Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-88897-968-2
  • Authority - Southern Reach Trilogy 2 , 2014
    • Authority - Volume 2 of the Southern Reach Trilogy, German by Michael Kellner; Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2015. ISBN 978-3-88897-995-8
  • Acceptance - Southern Reach Trilogy 3 , 2014
    • Acceptance - Volume 3 of the Southern Reach Trilogy, German by Michael Kellner; Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2015. ISBN 978-3-88897-996-5
  • Borne , 2017

Collections

  • The Book of Frog , 1989
  • The Book of Lost Places , 1996
  • City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris , 2001
  • City of Saints and Madmen (significantly expanded version of the 2001 edition), 2002
  • The Day Dali Died , 2003
  • City of Saints and Madmen (expanded version of 2002 edition)
    • City of saints and madmen, German by Erik Simon; Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2005. ISBN 3-608-93773-0
  • Secret Life , 2004
  • Why Should I Cut Your Throat? , 2004
  • VanderMeer 2005 , 2005
  • Secret Lives , 2006
  • A heart for Lucretia : stories, selection, ed. by Hannes Riffel; Shayol, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-926126-71-9 (the selection of stories largely corresponds to that from the English collection Secret Life , but has been partially changed for the German edition in consultation with the author)
  • The Surgeon's Tale , 2007 (with Cat Rambo)

As editor

  • Leviathan 2 , 1998 (with Rose Secrest)
  • Leviathan 3 , 2002 (with Forrest Aguirre)
  • The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases , 2003 (with Mark Roberts)
  • Best American Fantasy , 2007 (with Ann Vandermeer)
  • Mapping the Beast: The Best of Leviathan , 2007
  • Polluto , 2008 (with Rhys Hughes and Steve Redwood)
  • The New Weird , 2008 (with Ann Vandermeer)
  • Steampunk , 2008 (with Ann Vandermeer)
  • Best American Fantasy 2 , 2008 (with Ann Vandermeer)
  • Fast Ships, Black Sails , 2008 (with Ann Vandermeer)

Others

  • At the end of 2008 the Australian band The Church released a CD called Shriek: Excerpts from the soundtrack , which was intended as a possible “soundtrack to the book” and was created in close collaboration between the author and the band.

literature

Web links and reviews

Commons : Jeff VanderMeer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A Working Canon of Slipstream Writings , compiled at Readercon July 18, 2007 (PDF), accessed on October 5, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME VanderMeer, Jeff
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH 7th July 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Pennsylvania