Vendela Vida is the award-winning author of four books, including Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Nameand The Lovers, and a founding editor of The Believer magazine. She is also the co-editor of Always Apprentices, a collection of interviews with writers, and Confidence, or the Appearance of Confidence, a collection of interviews with musicians. As a fellow at the Sundance Labs, she developed Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name into a script, which received the Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award. Two of Vidas novels have been New York Times Notable Books of the year, and she is the winner of the Kate Chopin Award, given to a writer whose female protagonist chooses an unconventional path. She lives in Northern California with her husband and two children, and since 2002 has served on the board of 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring lab for youth.
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
And Now You Can Go (2003)
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name (2007)
The Lovers (2010)
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty (2015)
We Run the Tides (2021)
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name (2007)
The Lovers (2010)
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty (2015)
We Run the Tides (2021)
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Books containing stories by Vendela Vida
The Future Dictionary of America (2004)
edited by
Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, Eli Horowitz and Nicole Krauss
Award nominations
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