Jo Walton

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Jo Walton

Jo Walton (born December 1, 1964 in Aberdare , Wales ) is a Welsh - Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer. She won the Nebula Award in 2011 and the Hugo Award in 2012 for her novel Among Others .

biography

Jo Walton (2019).

Walton was born in Aberdare , an industrial town in the Welsh coal mining area of ​​Cynon Valley . After attending Park School in Aberdare, she attended Aberdare Girls' Grammar School . She lived in Cardiff for a year and went to Howell's School Llandaff there . She completed her education at the Oswestry School in Shropshire and then at the University of Lancaster . After spending two years in London , she moved to Lancaster . In 1997 she moved to Swansea . Since 2002 she has lived in Montreal , Canada . She is now a Canadian citizen. She is with Irish born Dr. Emmet A. O'Brien is married and has one son. Walton also speaks Welsh . She says on the subject: “Welsh was the second mother tongue of my family and my grandmother was a well-known Welsh teacher and translator. I myself learned the language from the age of 5 to 16 in school and have mastered grammar and vocabulary as part of my ten years of learning. In any case, I have no problems with the pronunciation. "

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Although Walton has been writing since she was 13, her first novel wasn't published until 2000. She previously wrote a number of articles in role-playing publications such as Pyramid Magazine , most of them with her then-husband, Ken Walton. Walton was active in online science fiction fandom , especially in the Usenet forums rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom . Her poem The Lurkers Support Me in E-Mail has been quoted and commented on in many discussions, often without her name being mentioned. Her first three novels, The King's Peace (2000), The King's Name (2001) and The Prize in the Game (2002) were from the field of fantasy . They all played in a world based on the Kingdom of King Arthur and Táin Bó Cúailnges Ireland . Her next novel Tooth and Claw (2003) was designed as if it could have been written by the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope , but about dragons rather than people.

Farthing was her first science fiction novel. In doing so, she mixed the form of the cozy mystery with the SF sub-genre of the alternative history , in which Great Britain made peace with Adolf Hitler before the United States entered World War II . The novel was nominated for the Nebula Award , the Quill Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History . A sequel, entitled Ha'penny , was released by Tor Books in October 2007 . In September 2008, the third part of this trilogy followed with Half a Crown . Ha'penny won the Prometheus Award in 2008 (together with Harry Turtledove's novel The Gladiator ) and was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award .

Walton has been writing a column for Tor.com since 2008 , mostly book reviews of earlier works.

Awards

Her novel Among Others , published in 2011, is one of only seven novels that have so far been nominated for the Hugo Award , the Nebula Award and the World Fantasy Award in the Best Novel category .

bibliography

German translations

Novels

Other works

  • GURPS Celtic Myth (with Ken Walton) (1995, role-player supplement)
  • Muses and Lurkers (2001, Poetry Chapbook, edited by Eleanor Evans)
  • Realms of Sorcery (with Ken Walton) (2002, addition for role-players)
  • Sybils and Spaceships Poetry Chapbook (2009, NESFA Press)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robin Turner: Jo's scientific approach to writing (in English) . In: Western Mail , December 26, 2007. Retrieved September 7, 2012. 
  2. ↑ Discussion thread in which Jo Walton confirms this information , December 2010, accessed on September 7, 2012.
  3. ^ Langford, David, Ansible number 169 , August 2001, accessed September 7, 2012.
  4. ↑ Jo Walton: Live Journal comment on knowledge of Welsh . In: LiveJournal (in English) , March 17th, 2003. Archived from the original on March 26th, 2012 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved September 11, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / truepenny.livejournal.com 
  5. ↑ Jo Walton:: Pen & Paper RPG Database ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pen-paper.net
  6. ↑ IRoSF: Login Required ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (in English) Retrieved September 11, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.irosf.com
  7. ↑ Announcement of Quills nominees at The Beat ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , (English), June 2, 2007, accessed September 11, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pwbeat.publishersweekly.com
  8. ^ John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalists , accessed September 11, 2012.
  9. ↑ Tor Books blurb page for Ha'penny ( Memento of the original dated December 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed on September 11, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tor-forge.com
  10. ↑ Prometheu awards winners announced , accessed on September 11, 2012.
  11. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed on September 11, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lambdaliterary.org
  12. ↑ Conversations from bluejo on Tor.com (English), accessed September 11, 2012.
  13. ↑ According to the Salt Lake County library catalog , http://www.slcolibrary.org/ , "in a limited hardcover edition with an edition of 800 copies"
personal data
SURNAME Walton, Jo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walton Jo L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Aberdare , Wales