Victoria Redel
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Victoria Redel is an American poet and fiction writer who lives in New York City. She is the author of three books of fiction The Border of Truth, Loverboy and Where the Road Bottoms Out and two books of poetry: Swoon and Already the World. She has taught at Columbia University, Vermont College and is currently on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College. She has two sons.
Her novel Loverboy was a Los Angeles Best Book. The novel was adapted for a feature length film (Loverboy, 2006) directed by Kevin Bacon
and starring Kyra Sedgwick
. Other actors in the film include Oliver Platt, Marisa Tomei, Matt Dillon and Sandra Bullock.
in 1940. He and his parents were among the 86 passengers on the ship the Quanza who were initially refused entry into the United States and Mexico and were about to be returned to Lisbon. The situation of the Quanza became the setting for Redel’s novel The Border of Truth. Victoria Redel is the youngest of three daughters. She grew up in Scarsdale, New York
, is a graduate of Dartmouth College
and received an MFA in poetry from Columbia University.
Awards and honors
Redel has received awards in fiction and poetry including fellowships from the National Endowment for The Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center. She won the Tom and Stan Wick Poetry award for Already the World and the S. Mariela Gable Award for Loverboy. Swoon was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award.Her novel Loverboy was a Los Angeles Best Book. The novel was adapted for a feature length film (Loverboy, 2006) directed by Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon
Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Trapped, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, Tremors, Death Sentence, Frost/Nixon, Crazy, Stupid, Love....
and starring Kyra Sedgwick
Kyra Sedgwick
Kyra Minturn Sedgwick is an American actress.Sedgwick is best known for her starring role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the TNT crime drama The Closer. Sedgwick's role in the series won her a Golden Globe Award in 2007 and an Emmy Award in 2010...
. Other actors in the film include Oliver Platt, Marisa Tomei, Matt Dillon and Sandra Bullock.
Background
Victoria Redel is first generation American of Belgian, Rumanian, Egyptian and Russian descent. Her mother, Natalie Soltanitzky, a noted ballet teacher and Director of the Ballet Guild School of Westchester, was born in Rumania, coming to New York in 1942 after spending two years in Paris under German Occupation. Her father, Irving Redel, left BelgiumBelgium
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in 1940. He and his parents were among the 86 passengers on the ship the Quanza who were initially refused entry into the United States and Mexico and were about to be returned to Lisbon. The situation of the Quanza became the setting for Redel’s novel The Border of Truth. Victoria Redel is the youngest of three daughters. She grew up in Scarsdale, New York
Scarsdale, New York
Scarsdale is a coterminous town and village in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the northern suburbs of New York City. The Town of Scarsdale is coextensive with the Village of Scarsdale, but the community has opted to operate solely with a village government, one of several villages...
, is a graduate of Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
and received an MFA in poetry from Columbia University.