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Vendela Vida

Vendela Vida is the award-winning author of books including Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and 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. She has written a number of screenplays, and as a fellow at the Sundance Labs developed Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name into a film, to be directed by the German director Eva Weber. Two of Vida’s novels have been New York TimesNotable 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. Her most recent novels are The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty, and We Run the Tides.

2021 Festival events
- Epicenter of Girlhood: Carol Edgarian and Vendela Vida on Coming of Age in San Francisco
2019 Festival events
- Unquiet: An Encounter with Linn Ullmann – CANCELLED
2015 Festival events
- The Fiction of Vendela Vida
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