Jeff VanderMeer

American writer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1968 · age 58

Jeff VanderMeer is an American author, editor, and literary critic. Initially associated with the New Weird literary genre, VanderMeer crossed over into mainstream success with his bestselling Southern Reach Series.

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2021World Fantasy Award for Best AnthologyAward2017Locus Award for Best AnthologyAward2015Nebula Award for Best NovelAward2014Shirley Jackson Award for NovelAward2012British Fantasy Award for Best AnthologyAwardWorld Fantasy Award for Best AnthologyAward2009“When they give you things, ask yourself why. When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should have anyway, ask yourself why.”In their wordsOpening epigramRead the whole statement

“It looked like lively abstract art. Symbols in search of context.”In their wordsp. 74Read the whole statement

“Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?”In their wordsp. 87Read the whole statement

“I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.”In their wordsp. 299Read the whole statement

“Strange, but when he closed his eyes he had an image of the hotel above them restored to its former grandeur. A concierge and porter in the lobby.”In their wordsp. 325Read the whole statement

2007Tähtifantasia AwardAward2003World Fantasy Award for Best AnthologyAward2001“An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture.”In their words"The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of the City of Ambergris", Ch. 4, p. 122Read the whole statement

2000World Fantasy Award for Best NovellaAward1968Born7 July 1968

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Maybe once, early on, he had convinced himself he could do some good, sometimes even imagined he was a mole, getting close so he could strike a blow.
2009 · p. 20, Own words
But the fact is I don’t care. I haven’t cared since I came here, and I will continue not to care until I leave. With as much of Ambergris smoldering behind me as I can manage.
2009 · p. 122, Own words
They’ll never forget, never forgive, no matter who the enemy is, son. Better just to start a new life. Be someone else.
2009 · p. 303, Own words

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Awards

World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology2021

Locus Award for Best Anthology2017

Nebula Award for Best Novel2015

Shirley Jackson Award for Novel2014

World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology2012

British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology2012

Tähtifantasia Award2007

World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology2003

World Fantasy Award for Best Novella2000

About this person

The series' first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards, and was adapted into a Hollywood film by director Alex Garland. Among VanderMeer's other novels are Shriek: An Afterword and Borne. He has also edited with his wife Ann VanderMeer such influential and award-winning anthologies as The New Weird, The Weird, and The Big Book of Science Fiction.

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United States