Veronika Decides to Die is written by a woman.
Roberta Hanley is an actress and movie director . She directed the 1998 movie Brand New World for which she was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature Film at the 2001 New York International Independent Film & Video Festival . Veronika Decides to Die (film) . The film is written by Larry Gross and Roberta Hanley and is adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Paulo Coelho .