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The film Sukkwan Island, from David Vann’s Legend of a Suicide and starring Swann Arlaud and Woody Norman, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2025 and was also featured at the San Francisco Film Festival.  It will be released in September and is directed by Vladimir de Fontenay, produced by Haut et Court.  Goat Mountain will be filmed next year with director Özcan Alper, produced by Nar Films.  Bright Air Black and a forthcoming novel, From Before Memory, are currently under option. 

Published in 23 languages, David Vann’s internationally-bestselling books have won 14 prizes, including best foreign novel in France and Spain (Prix Medicis Etranger and Premi Llibreter), and appeared on 84 Best Books of the Year lists in a dozen countries. Other prizes include the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction, the AWP Nonfiction Award, the $50,000 St. Francis College Literary Prize for mid-career authors, a California Book Award, and shortlists and longlists for dozens of other prizes. He has been featured in more than 100 international literary festivals and had book tours in 32 countries.  He has written for the Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Outside, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, The Financial Times, The New Statesman, Elle UK, Esquire UK, Esquire Russia, National Geographic Adventure, Writer’s Digest, McSweeney’s, and other magazines and newspapers.  A former Guggenheim fellow, National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Wallace Stegner fellow, and John L’Heureux fellow, he holds degrees from Stanford and Cornell and is a retired Professor from the University of Warwick in England and Honorary Professor at the University of Franche-Comté in France. Profiled:  New York Times, cover of Arts section, Le Monde (France), El Pais (Spain),  The Sunday Times (UK), Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The Listener (New Zealand), The Observer (UK), La Vanguardia, back page (Spain), San Francisco Chronicle, cover of Arts section, Metro (UK) “The Big Interview,” The Scotsman, Sunday Business Post (Ireland), The Irish Times, The Anchorage Daily News, Publishers Weekly.