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*[[David_Gemmell_Legend_Awards|David Gemmell Morningstar Award]], Best Fantasy Newcomer 2011 (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
*[[David_Gemmell_Legend_Awards|David Gemmell Morningstar Award]], Best Fantasy Newcomer 2011 (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
*[[Crawford_Award|IAFA William L. Crawford Award]], 2011 (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sfadb.com/db/William_L_Crawford_-_IAFA_Fantasy_Award_2011 | title=William L. Crawford - IAFA Fantasy Award 2011 | accessdate=7 September 2016}}</ref>
*[[Crawford_Award|IAFA William L. Crawford Award]], 2011 (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sfadb.com/db/William_L_Crawford_-_IAFA_Fantasy_Award_2011 | title=William L. Crawford - IAFA Fantasy Award 2011 | accessdate=7 September 2016}}</ref>
*[[Prix_Imaginales|Prix Imaginales]], Best Foreign Novel 2011 (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
*[[:fr:Prix_Imaginales|Prix Imaginales]], Best Foreign Novel 2011 (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
*Nebula Award, Best Novel 2012 (The Kingdom of Gods)
*Nebula Award, Best Novel 2012 (The Kingdom of Gods)
*Nebula Award, Best Novel 2013 (The Killing Moon)
*Nebula Award, Best Novel 2013 (The Killing Moon)

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N. K. Jemisin
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N. K. Jemisin
BornIowa City, Iowa, United States
Pen nameN. K. Jemisin
OccupationNovelist, psychologist, career counselor
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction, fantasy
Website
nkjemisin.com

N. K. Jemisin (born September 19, 1972) is an American speculative fiction writer and blogger. Her fiction explores a wide variety of themes, including cultural conflict and oppression, via fantasy and science-fictional milieu.[1] In 2010, Jemisin's short story Non-Zero Probabilities was a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula Best Short Story Awards.

Jemisin's debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, was nominated for the 2010 Nebula Award, and short-listed for the James Tiptree Jr. Award. In 2011, it was nominated for the Hugo Award, World Fantasy Award,[2] and Locus Award, winning the 2011 Locus Award for Best First Novel[3]. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms also won the Sense of Gender Awards in 2011.

In 2016, N. K. Jemisin's novel The Fifth Season won the Hugo Award for Best Novel.

Early life

N. K. Jemisin was born in Iowa City, Iowa, and grew up in New York City and Mobile, Alabama. She lived in Massachusetts for ten years and then moved to New York City.[4] Jemisin attended Tulane University from 1990 to 1994, where she received a B.S. in psychology.[4] She went on to earn her Master of Education from the University of Maryland College Park.

Career

A graduate of the 2002 Viable Paradise writing workshop,[5] Jemisin has published a number of short stories and completed several novels. Jemisin was a member of the Boston-area writing group BRAWLers,[6] and is a member of Altered Fluid, a speculative fiction critique group.[6]

In 2012 Jemisin stated that reading science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein's novel Farnham's Freehold was proof that "that Heinlein was racist as fuck" and "most of science fiction fandom was too".[7] Jemisin also claimed that she both "loved and despised" the genre of science fiction.[7]

In May 2013 it was announced that she would be co-Guest of Honor of the 2014 WisCon science fiction convention in Madison, Wisconsin.[8] She was the Author Guest of Honor at Arisia 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts.[9]

During her delivery of the Guest of Honour speech at the 2013 Continuum in Australia, Jemisin pointed out that 10% of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SWFA) membership voted for alt-right writer Theodore Beale (also known as Vox Day) in his bid for the SFWA presidential position. She went on to call Beale "racist, misogynistic, and hateful" and noted that silence about these issues was the same as enabling them. Beale responded by calling her an "educated but ignorant savage."[10] A link to his comments was tweeted on the SFWA Authors Twitter feed, and Beale was subsequently expelled from the organization.[11]

In May 2016, Jemisin mounted a Patreon campaign which raised sufficient funding to allow her to quit her job as a counseling psychologist and focus full-time on her writing.[12]

Personal life

Jemisin lives and works in Brooklyn, New York,[13] along with King Ozymandias (Ozzy).

Ozymandias overlooking his domain.

Awards

Won

  • Locus Award, Best First Novel 2011 (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
  • Sense of Gender Award, 2011 (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
  • Hugo Award, Best Novel 2016 (The Fifth Season)

Nominated

  • Recommended Reading Shortlist for the Parallax Award, Carl Brandon Society 2006 ("Cloud Dragon Skies")
  • Hugo Award, Best Short Story 2010 ("Non-Zero Probabilities")
  • Nebula Award, Best Short Story 2010 ("Non-Zero Probabilities")
  • Nebula Award, Best Novel 2010 (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
  • Tiptree Award Shortlist, Best Novel 2010 (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
  • Hugo Award, Best Novel 2011(The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
  • World Fantasy Award, Best Novel 2011 (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
  • David Gemmell Morningstar Award, Best Fantasy Newcomer 2011 (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
  • IAFA William L. Crawford Award, 2011 (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)[14]
  • Prix Imaginales, Best Foreign Novel 2011 (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
  • Nebula Award, Best Novel 2012 (The Kingdom of Gods)
  • Nebula Award, Best Novel 2013 (The Killing Moon)
  • World Fantasy Award, Best Novel 2013 (The Killing Moon)
  • Nebula Award, Best Novel 2016 (The Fifth Season)
  • World Fantasy Award, Best Novel 2016 (The Fifth Season)
  • Locus Award, Best Novel 2016 (The Fifth Season)

Bibliography

Novels

The Inheritance trilogy

A novella entitled The Awakened Kingdom set in the Inheritance trilogy was released along with an omnibus of the trilogy on December 9, 2014.[16]

A triptych entitled Shades in Shadow was released July 28, 2015. It contained three short stories, including a prequel to the trilogy.[17]

Dreamblood series

The Broken Earth trilogy

Other

Short stories

  • "L'Alchimista," published in Scattered, Covered, Smothered, Two Cranes Press, 2004. Winner of an Honorable Mention from The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 18th collection. Also available as an Escape Pod episode
  • "Too Many Yesterdays, Not Enough Tomorrows," Ideomancer, 2004.
  • "Cloud Dragon Skies," Strange Horizons, 2005. Also an Escape Pod episode
  • "Red Riding-Hood's Child," Fishnet, 2005.
  • "The You Train," Strange Horizons, 2007.
  • "Bittersweet," Abyss & Apex Magazine, 2007.
  • "The Narcomancer," Helix, reprinted in Transcriptase, 2007.
  • "The Brides of Heaven," Helix, reprinted in Transcriptase, 2007.
  • "Playing Nice With God's Bowling Ball," Baen's Universe, 2008.
  • "The Dancer's War," published in Like Twin Stars: Bisexual Erotic Stories, Circlet Press, 2009.
  • "Non-Zero Probabilities," Clarkesworld Magazine, 2009.
  • "Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints in the City Beneath the Still Waters," Postscripts, 2010.
  • "On the Banks of the River Lex," Clarkesworld Magazine, 11/2010
  • "The Effluent Engine," published in Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories, Torquere Press, 2011
  • "The Trojan Girl," Weird Tales, 2011
  • "Valedictorian," published in After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, Hyperion Book CH, 2012

Nonfiction

Awards and Nominations

  • Winner, Hugo Award, 2015 (Best Novel, for The Fifth Season)
  • Shortlist, Locus Award, 2015 (Fantasy, for The Fifth Season)
  • Nominee, Hugo Award, 2015 (for The Fifth Season)
  • Nominee, Nebula Award, 2015 (for The Fifth Season)
  • Nominee, World Fantasy Award, 2012 (for The Killing Moon)
  • Winner, Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice, Fantasy (for The Shadowed Sun)
  • Nominee, Nebula Award, 2012 (for The Killing Moon)
  • Nominee, Nebula Award, 2011 (for The Kingdom of Gods)
  • Winner, Sense of Gender Award, 2011 (for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms‘ Japanese version)
  • Winner, 2010, Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice, Fantasy (for The Broken Kingdoms)
  • Shortlist, Tiptree Award 2010 (for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
  • Nominee, Prix Imaginales, for Best Translation (for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
  • Finalist, Gemmell Morningstar Award, 2010
  • Winner, Locus Award, 2010 (First Novel, for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
  • Nominee, Hugo Awards, 2010 (Novel, for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
  • Nominee, Nebula Awards, 2010 (Novel, for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
  • Nominee, Goodreads Readers’ Choice Awards, 2010 (for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
  • Nominee, Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice, 2010, Fantasy, for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
  • Shortlist, Crawford Award, (Novel, for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
  • Nominee, Hugo Awards, 2009 (Short Story, for “Non-Zero Probabilities”)
  • Nominee, Nebula Awards, 2009 (Short Story, for “Non-Zero Probabilities”)
  • The Speculative Literature Foundation’s 2004 Travel Grant, using “L’Alchimista” as writing sample.
  • Recommended Reading Shortlist for the “Parallax Award”, Carl Brandon Society, for “Cloud Dragon Skies”, 2006.

References

  1. ^ "An Interview With N.K. Jemisin on The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms". Orbit Books.
  2. ^ "World Fantasy Nominees and Lifetime Achievement Winners". Locus Online News. 28 July 2011.
  3. ^ "Locus Awards 2011 Winners". Locus Online.
  4. ^ a b "N.K. Jemisin: Rites of Passage". Locus Magazine. 18 August 2010.
  5. ^ "N.K. Jemisin: Rites of Passage". Locus. 18 August 2010. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  6. ^ a b Jones, Jeremy L. C. "Even the Best Stories Have Flaws: Inside Altered Fluid". Clarkesworld Magazine.
  7. ^ a b Jemisin, N. K. (September 8, 2012). "Things People Need to Understand, issue 223.2". Nkjemisin.com.
  8. ^ "Announcing WisCon 38's Guests of Honor: Hiromi Goto and N.K. Jemisin" A Momentary Taste of WisCon 37 (Elizabeth Stone, ed.) Issue #4 (May 26, 2013), p. 2
  9. ^ "Guest of Honor Bios". Arisia 2015.
  10. ^ El-Mohtar, Amal (13 June 2013). "Calling for the Expulsion of Theodore Beale from SFWA". Retrieved 14 Jan 2016.
  11. ^ "SFWA Board Votes to Expel Beale". Locus. 14 August 2013.
  12. ^ Kehe, Jason (7 June 2016). "WIRED Book Club: Fantasy Writer N.K. Jemisin on the Weird Dreams That Fuel Her Stories". Wired. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  13. ^ Payne, Marshall (28 June 2011). "Nebula Awards 2010 Interview: N.K. Jemisin". SFWA. Retrieved 14 Jan 2016.
  14. ^ "William L. Crawford - IAFA Fantasy Award 2011". Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  15. ^ "The Inheritance Trilogy". Nkjemisin.com.
  16. ^ "So, about that Seekrit Project I've been working on…". Nkjemisin.com. 30 April 2014.
  17. ^ "Now it can be told!". Nkjemisin.com. 25 June 2015.
  18. ^ Das, Indrapramit (2 May 2012). "In Dreams: N.K. Jemisin's The Killing Moon". Slant Magazine. Archived from the original on 16 May 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2012. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  19. ^ "Mass Effect is getting four spin-off novels bridging the gap to Andromeda". Eurogamer. 24 June 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  20. ^ http://www.quirkbooks.com/book/geek-wisdom
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