David Vann (writer)

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

Life and work

David Vann was born in 1966 on Adak Iceland, the son of a dentist at the local U.S. military base and grew up in Ketchikan ( Alaska ), together with his five years younger sister. His father killed himself when David Vann was 13, a subject which he later recorded in his book Legend of a Suicide. David Vann graduated from Cornell University in 1994 with the MFA ( Master of Fine Arts, Arts High School ) from. 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. At Florida State University, he was an Assistant Professor. Vann published his short stories, among others, in the Atlantic Monthly and Esquire.

Awards (selection)

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

Works

• Legend of a Suicide. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst 2008, ISBN 978-1-55849-672-9. ( Short stories, paperback edition was published in 2009 by Penguin, ISBN 978-0-141-04378-4. ) Sukkwan Iceland, a novella from Legend of a Suicide was from the American transfer of Miriam Mandelkow: In the shadow of his father. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-42229-8. ( Audiobook edition read by Christian Brückner, Parlando Edition, Berlin 2011, 5 CD. )

• German edition: The immensity. Transferring Miriam Mandelkow. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-42296-0. ( Audiobook edition read by Christian Brückner, Parlando Edition, Berlin 2012)

• Dirt. Novel. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2013