Vendela Vida

Vendela Vida

Vendela Vida (born September 6, 1971 ) is an American writer , journalist and editor . She is married to the writer and author Dave Eggers and lives with him and their two children in the San Francisco Bay Area .

Books

Vida has written four books.

The novel was published in 2003. And Now You Can Go (German: And now you can go ), in New York , San Francisco, and the Philippines is, and traces the impulsive journeys of a young woman after a assault. In a 2003 Guardian article , Vida commented on her plan to author a trilogy of novels on violence and anger .

The second novel Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name (German: Because I was late ), which is set in Lapland , was published in 2007. Vida's latest novel, The Lovers (German: Lovers ) was published in June 2010 by Ecco.
Joyce Carol Oates called The Lovers "a compelling and engaging novel about an American woman on her way to self-discovery".

script

Vida worked with Dave Eggers on the script for the 2009 film Away We Go , directed by Sam Mendes , and co-wrote John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph .

826 Valencia

Vida is a co-founder and board member of the 826 Valencia non-profit organization that she, her husband Dave Eggers and the educator Ninive Clements Calegari founded in 2002 in San Francisco. “826 Valencia” was designed as a writing learning center for children and teenagers aged 6-18 years. It has expanded to include seven chapters in the United States: Los Angeles , New York City, Seattle , Chicago , Ann Arbor , Washington, DC, and Boston , all under the auspices of the nonprofit 826 National .

media

Vendela Vida is also the name of a song released in 2010 by indie folk rock band Dinosaur Feathers on their album Fantasy Memorial .

Works

• 2000 Girls on the Verge: Debutante Dips, Drive-Bys, and Other Initiations , St. Martin's Press, English, ISBN 978-0-312-26328-7 .
• 2003 And Now You Can Go (novel), Paw Prints, English, ISBN 978-1-4395-7338-9 .
  • And now you can go (novel), German by Juliane Gräbener-Müller, Knaus, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-8135-0215-5 .
• 2008 Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name (novel), Harper Collins, English, ISBN 978-0-06-082838-7 .
  • Because I was late (novel), German by Almuth Carstens, btb, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-442-75203-5 .
• 2008 The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers , McSweeney's, English, ISBN 978-1-932416-94-7 .
• 2009 Read Hard: Five Years of Great Writing from the Believer , Heidi Julavits , Ed Park and Vendela Vida, McSweeney's, English, ISBN 978-1-934781-39-5 .
• 2009 Away We Go (screenplay), Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, Vintage Books, English, ISBN 978-0-307-47588-6 .
  • 2009 Away We Go - Auf nach Irgendwo (screenplay), not available in German
• 2010 The Lovers (novel), Harper Collins, English, ISBN 978-0-06-082839-4
  • Lovers (novel), German by Lisa Jannach and Jürgen Holtrode; btb, Munich 2012, ISBN 3-442-74423-7 .
• 2015: The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty . Ecco / HarperCollins, New York City, USA 2015, ISBN 978-0-06-211091-6 .
  • The diver's empty clothes , translated by Monika Baark. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-351-03629-4 .

Web links

Commons : Vendela Vida  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Vendela Vida in the catalog of the German National Library
• The San Francisco Chronicle on Vendela Vida
• Nathan Englander in Interview on Vendela Vida
• AO Scott in The New York Times Magazine about Vendela Vida and The Believer
• The Guardian on Vendela Vida (2011)
• The Guardian on Vendela Vida (2003)
• Vendela Vida Interview in Identity Theory
• Away We Go - Official Website
• Dinosaur Feather performing live "Vendela Vida" on Youtube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Julian Guthrie , "Vendela Vida wraps trilogy on women in crisis," The San Francisco Chronicle , July 6, 2010., accessed August 14, 2013
2. ↑ Duncan Campbell, "What Do They Mean? Duncan Campbell Meets Vendela Vida," The Guardian , Sept. 23, 2003. (The newspaper refers to Vida and her husband Eggers as "the Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt of literature.")
3. ^ Nathan Englander, "Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida," Interview Magazine, May, 2009.
4. ^ Sarah Crown, A life in writing: Vendela Vida , The Guardian , July 8, 2011.
5. ↑ "A heartwarming work of literary altruism" San Francisco Chronicle, accessed on April 7, 2007
6. ↑ 826 chapters . In: 826 National . Retrieved February 20, 2007.
7. ↑ "Vendela Vida" on iTunes
8. ↑ "Vendela Vida" on the official band website of the "Dinosaur Feathers" August 14, 2013