David Vann (writer)

David Vann was born October 19, 1966 on Adak Island in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. 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" 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 BBC, CNN, PBS, National Geographic, and E! Entertainment.
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"