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Ian McEwan

IIn conversation with Vendela Vida

Tuesday, April 13, 2010  |  Herbst Theatre, 8pm

British author Ian McEwan is one of the foremost fiction writers of his generation. McEwan’s work has won numerous awards, from the Booker Prize for his 1998 novel Amsterdam, to the Somerset Maugham Award for his first collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites. His bestselling novel, Atonement, which follows the devastating effects of a child’s lie, was made into a feature film starring Kiera Knightley and James McAvoy. McEwan has always been fascinated by moments of synchronicity and chance, and the lasting effects these occurrences can have on a life. His recent novella On Chesil Beach chronicles the aftermath of a couple’s wedding night gone horribly awry. “It’s the quality of random surprise that fascinates me,” McEwan said in a recent interview. His forthcoming novel, Solar, captures a moment of crisis for Michael Beard, a washed-up Nobel Prize-winning physicist. The subject of climate change provides a backdrop against which human culpability and ingenuity are tightly linked. In addition to his novels and short stories, McEwan has also written a play, two children’s books, several screenplays, and an opera titled For You.

Vendela Vida is the author of the critically acclaimed novels And Now You Can Go, Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name, as well as of Girls on the Verge, a journalistic account of female initiation rituals. Vida co-founded and co-edits The Believer, a monthly nonfiction magazine that includes critical pieces, advice, reviews and in-depth interviews. She is a founding board member of 826 Valencia.

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