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Vendela Vida


USA flag (b.1972)
Wife of Dave Eggers

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.
 


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Award nominations
2007 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize for Fiction (third place) : Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name


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Mercy Street (2022)
Jennifer Haigh
"Mercy Street is a bold, important, beautifully written and incredibly timely novel."
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The Wonder Test (2021)
Michelle Richmond
"Explores the underbelly of San Francisco, the pressures of Silicon Valley, and the love between a mother and her teenage son. I was captivated by...FBI agent Lina Connerly, and the plot twists kept me riveted."
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The Nearness of you (2017)
Amanda Eyre Ward
"The Nearness of You is not just an arresting meditation on motherhood but also an exploration of how we can seize the lives we've been given and transform them into the lives we want to live. Like all of Ward's novels, this book's intrigue and charm demand that it be indulged in a single sitting."

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