Karen Joy Fowler

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Karen Joy Fowler (2013)

Karen Joy Fowler (born Karen Joy Burke on February 7, 1950 in Bloomington , Indiana ) is an American writer. Her best-known book is the also filmed novel The Jane Austen Club . Her works, in which uncertainty and alienation play a major role, often move on the borderline between realism and fantasy .

Life

When Burke was 11 years old, the family moved to Palo Alto , California , where they attended high school. From 1968 she studied Asian culture and political science at the University of California at Berkeley , where she obtained a bachelor's degree in political science in 1972 , at the State University of New York in Albany and at the University of California in Davis , where she received her master's degree in 1974 completed. In 1972 she married Hugh Sterling Fowler II. She experienced the political confrontations during her student days, such as the one in People's Park in Berkeley in 1969, and was politically active as an opponent of the Vietnam War . Fowler had taken courses in creative writing with Kim Stanley Robinson at university , but initially pursued a career as a dancer and at times worked as a ballet teacher.

Her first science fiction story appeared in 1985 in the anthology L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol I., edited by Algis Budrys . The volume of short stories Artificial Things (1986), for which she received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New SF Writer in 1987, attracted particular attention . In 1991 Fowler's first novel Sarah Canary was published . The title character is a black-clad, strange woman who appears in 1873 at a railroad workers camp in the Washington Territory on the northwest coast. The Chinese Chin Ah Kin is instructed by his uncle to take the "ugly woman" away, but is embroiled in a number of adventures. Sarah Canary, so named because she only makes chirping sounds, remains mysterious and it is not clear who or what she is. Maybe she's an alien. John Clute called Sarah Canary "perhaps the best novel about first contact".

In 1991 Fowler and Pat Murphy initiated the James Tiptree, Jr. Award as part of the WisCon science fiction convention . The award is named after James Tiptree junior , the pseudonym and male alter ego of Alice B. Sheldon, and is intended to honor science fiction works that depict gender roles in an interesting and innovative way.

In 2004 Fowler published the novel The Jane Austen Club (German as Der Jane Austen Club ), her best-known work to date. In the novel, five women and a man meet to talk about Jane Austen's novels . Since Austen has written six novels, each of the six main characters takes on one of the novels and thus a facet of Austen. Analogous to Austen's themes, Fowler's characters experience marital crises, affairs, mesalliances and relationships between love and dalliance. The whole thing is peppered with allusions and references to Austen. The film The Jane Austen Club (USA 2007, director: Robin Swicord ) adopts the constellation and characters from the novel, but is not a film adaptation of the novel. Fowler found the film "not my book," but still smart and entertaining.

In 2007, Fowler taught the Clarion Workshop for aspiring science fiction writers in San Diego . She has since been Chair of the Clarion Foundation Board of Trustees .

Fowler has two grown children, a son and a daughter, and lives with her husband in Santa Cruz , California.

Awards

bibliography

Novels
  • Sarah Canary (1991)
  • The Sweetheart Season (1996)
  • Sister Noon (2001)
  • The Jane Austen Book Club (2004)
  • Wit's End (2008, also as The Case of the Imaginary Detective )
  • We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013)
Collections
  • Artificial Things (1986)
    • German: artificial things. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4821, 1991, ISBN 3-453-05010-X .
  • Peripheral Vision (1990)
  • Black Glass (1998)
  • What I Didn't See and Other Stories (2010)
  • The Science of Herself plus ... (2013)
Anthologies
  • MOTA 3: Courage (2003)
  • 80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin (2010, with Debbie Notkin, Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Ursula K. Le Guin )
  • The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 (2016)

The James Tiptree Award Anthology (with Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin and Jeffrey D. Smith)

  • The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1 (2005)
  • The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2 (2006)
  • The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3 (2007)
Short stories
  • Practice (1985)
    • German: Practice. In: Artificial Things . 1991.
  • Recalling Cinderella (1985)
    • English: Memories of Cinderella. Translated by Elke Rohwedder. In: HJ Alpers (ed.): The stars are female. Moewig Science Fiction # 3874, 1989, ISBN 3-8118-3874-1 . Also as: recall campaign for Cinderella. Translated by Peter Robert. In: Artificial Things . 1991.
  • The Poplar Street Study (1985)
    • English: The Poplar Street Experiment. In: Artificial Things . 1991.
  • The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things (1985)
    • German: The lake was full of artificial things.

The future was tender: love stories from the world of tomorrow 1989-02-00§ed. Karl Michael Armer, Michael Nagula§Luchterhand (Luchterhand Collection # 822) §3-630-61822-7 1989.

    • German: The lake was full of artificial things. Translated by Peter Robert. In: Artificial Things . 1991.
  • The War of the Roses (1985)
    • German: The War of the Roses. In: Artificial Things . 1991.
  • Contention (1986)
    • German: Records. In: Artificial Things . 1991.
  • Other Planes (1986)
  • The Bog People (1986)
    • German: The Moormen. In: Artificial Things . 1991.
  • The Gate of Ghosts (1986)
    • German: The ghost gate. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Wasserman's robots. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4513, 1988, ISBN 3-453-02768-X . Also in: Artificial things . 1991.
  • The Bog People (1986)
  • The View from Venus (1986)
    • English: The view from Venus. In: Artificial Things . 1991.
  • Wild Boys: Variations on a Theme (1986)
    • German: Wilde Jungs: Variations on a Theme. In: Artificial Things . 1991.
  • The Dragon's Head (1986)
    • English: The head of the dragon. In: Artificial Things . 1991.
  • Face Value (1986)
    • German: The true face of things. Translated by Irene Bonhorst. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Second Hand Planet. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4470, 1988, ISBN 3-453-00995-9 . Also called: The price of the face. Translated by Peter Robert. In: Artificial Things . 1991.
  • Letters from Home (1987)
  • The Faithful Companion at Forty (1987)
    • German: A person of rarity. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Heyne Science Fiction Annual Volume 1989. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4570, 1989, ISBN 3-453-03148-2 .
  • Heartland (1988)
  • Lily Red (1988)
    • German: Lily rot. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Mondaugen. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4660, 1990, ISBN 3-453-03914-9 .
  • Game Night at the Fox & Goose (1989)
  • Faded Roses (1989)
  • Duplicity (1989)
    • German: duplicity. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The lead of time. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4803, 1991, ISBN 3-453-04996-9 .
  • Lieserl (1990)
    • German: Lieserl. In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.): Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 39th episode. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4906, 1992, ISBN 3-453-05830-5 .
  • The Night Wolf (1990)
  • Sarah Canary and the Mermaid (1990)
  • Sarah Canary (excerpt) (1991)
  • Black Glass (1991)
  • The Dark (1991)
    • German: In the dark. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (ed.): The pilot. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5160, 1994, ISBN 3-453-07775-X .
  • The Brew (1995)
  • Shimabara (1995)
  • The Elizabeth Complex (1996)
  • The Queen of Hearts and Swords (1996)
  • The Marianas Islands (1996)
  • The Reef Builders (1997, with Maureen F. McHugh , Rosaleen Love, and Terry Bisson)
  • The Black Fairy's Curse (1997)
  • Standing Room Only (1997)
  • Go Back (1998)
  • The Travails (1998)
  • What I Didn't See (2002)
  • The Further Adventures of the Invisible Man (2002)
  • Private Grave 9 (2003)
  • King Rat (2003)
  • Familiar Birds (2006)
  • Always (2007)
  • The Last Worders (2007)
  • The Pelican Bar (2009)
  • Halfway People (2010)
  • Booth's Ghost (2010)
  • Younger Women (2011)
  • The Science of Herself (2013)
  • Nanny Anne and the Christmas Story (2013)
  • Persephone of the Crows (2017)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Clute : Fowler, Karen Joy. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated August 31, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Terry Bisson: “More Exuberant Than Is Strictly Tasteful” Interview in: Karen Joy Fowler: The Science of Herself plus… PM Press (Outspoken Authors # 12), 2013, ISBN 978-1-60486-825-8 , p 61-76.
  3. ↑ The Clarion Foundation Board of Trustees , accessed December 9, 2018.
  4. ^ Karen Joy Fowler: The Science of Herself plus… PM Press (Outspoken Authors # 12), 2013, ISBN 978-1-60486-825-8 , About the Author .
personal data
SURNAME Fowler, Karen Joy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burke, Karen Joy (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bloomington , Indiana