Nalo Hopkinson

Falling in Love with Hominids

Sprecher: Turpin, Bahni

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tantor
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 536 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798200788606
• Artikelnr.: 63332317

Autorenporträt

Internationally renowned Nalo Hopkinson was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and also spent her childhood in Trinidad and Guyana before her family moved to Toronto, Canada, when she was sixteen. In 1997, Hopkinson won the Warner Aspect contest for Brown Girl in the Ring, and she received the John W. Campbell and Locus Awards for Best First Novel. Her collection Skin Folk received the World Fantasy and Sunburst Awards. The Salt Roads received the Gaylactic Spectrum Award for positive exploration of queer issues in speculative fiction. The New Moon's Arms also won the Prix Aurora and Sunburst Awards, making Hopkinson the first author to receive the award twice. In 2020, Hopkinson was named the Damon Knight Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, and is the youngest and the first woman of African descent to receive this lifetime honor. As a professor of Creative Writing at the University of California Riverside, she was a member of the Speculative Futures Collective. Hopkinson is currently a professor in the School of Creative Writing of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.