Exploring identity with Kevin Barry and Vendela Vida – books podcast
We examine the attractions of stepping into someone else's shoes with the novelists Kevin Barry and Vendela Vida
September 2015
Meet the author
Vendela Vida: ‘You write to know you’re not alone in the world’
Dancing with the past in Sweden
August 2011
The Lovers by Vendela Vida – review
Sarah Churchwell admires the prose in this darkly elegant novel
July 2011
Critical eye
Critical eye: book reviews roundup
A life in ...
A life in writing: Vendela Vida
April 2007
Arctic rollercoaster
Vendela Vida's Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name follows a sour but funny heroine through the snows of Lapland, writes Jenny Diski.
March 2007
Lovelorn? Go to Lapland
Vendela Vida's Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name is an ambitious meditation on family and romance, says Kasia Boddy.
September 2003
'What do they mean?'
Duncan Campbell
Vendela Vida is the hottest young voice in US fiction. She and her husband, bestselling author Dave Eggers, are known as the Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt of literature. But she couldn't care less, she tells Duncan Campbell.
August 2003
No pepper spray? Try lines from Larkin
Poetry prevents a killing in the park; elsewhere women are not so lucky as Hephzibah Anderson rounds up debuts from Vendela Vida, Nancy Lee, Matthew McIntosh and Elise Blackwell