Monica Byrne

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Monica Byrne (born July 13, 1981 in Harrisburg , Pennsylvania ) is an American playwright and science fiction writer. She was known for her drama What Every Girl Should Know and her debut novel The Girl in the Road (dt. The bridge ) connected to the James Tiptree, Jr. Award was awarded.

life and work

Monica Byrne was born in Harrisburg on July 13, 1981, the youngest of five children. With the aim of becoming an astronaut and flying to Mars, she completed an internship at NASA. She received a BA in Biochemistry and Religion from Wellesley College and a Masters in Geochemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 . But instead of continuing her academic career, she decided to become a writer.

From 2005 to 2007 she took classes at South's Premier Comedy School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and completed a Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop with Neil Gaiman in San Diego in 2008 . She lives in Durham , where she is playwright in residence with the Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern . Her plays have also been performed in other theaters.

Her drama What Every Girl Should Know, about four students at a Catholic girls' school in 1914, who venerate suffragette and birth control activist Margaret Sanger like a saint and slide so deep into a fantasy world until it appears real to them, was set in Durham, Berkeley and New York listed.

The story of her 2014 debut novel published The Girl in the Road (dt. The bridge, 2015 ) Monica Byrne leaves in 2068 to play. Africa and India have become the strongest economic powers. It interweaves the paths and fates of Meena, a young woman who crosses the Arabian Sea west from Mumbai to Djibouti on a four thousand kilometer floating bridge that is used to generate electricity, and Mairama, a girl who crosses the African continent east of Mauritania crosses to Djibouti.

The Wall Street Journal praised the novel as "a new sensation, a real achievement", whereas Jason Heller of National Public Radio called it a "frustrating patchwork". Marten Hahn ( Deutschlandradio Kultur ) described Die Brücke as "global literature in the best sense" and "a piece of science fiction for people who actually don't read science fiction."

The Girl in the Road won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award , was nominated for the Locus Award and was shortlisted for The Kitschies UK literary award .

Byrne names Norman Rush , Kim Stanley Robinson and Ursula K. Le Guin as role models.

Awards

bibliography

Novels
  • The Girl in the Road (2014)
Dramas

The dates of the plays refer to the date of the premiere.

  • The Memory Palace (2011)
  • Nightwork (2011)
  • The Pentaeon (2012)
  • What Every Girl Should Know (2012)
  • Tarantino's Yellow Speedo (2014)
Short stories

2010:

  • The Reclamation Rite of One April Nora Hess (2010, in: Gargoyle, # 56 )
  • Nine Bodies of Water (in: Fantasy Magazine, September 2010 )
  • Five Letters from New Laverne (2010, in: Shimmer, Number 12 )
  • The Comedy at Kualoa (in: Electric Velocipede, Issue # 21/22, Fall 2010 )

2015:

  • Gustus Dei (in: The Baffler No. 27, 2015 ).

2016:

  • Dream Physics (in: Tor.com, June 29, 2016 )
  • Birthday Girls (2016)
  • Betty, Butter, Sun (2016)

2017:

  • Alexandria (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January-February 2017 )
  • Authenticity (2017, in: Jared Shurin and Mahvesh Murad (Eds.): The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories )
  • Free Fall (2017, in: Monica Louzon et al. (Eds.): Catalysts, Explorers & Secret Keepers: Women of Science Fiction )
Non-fiction
  • The Melleray Alphabet (2016)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Monica Byrne (author) - Random House publishing group. In: Random House Publishing Group. Retrieved December 30, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b THE GIRL IN THE ROAD by Monica Byrne | Kirkus Reviews ( English ) Retrieved on October 31, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b sfadb: Monica Byrne Awards . Retrieved October 30, 2015. The Kitschies 2014
  4. ↑ Christopher Zumski Finke: This Former NASA Intern Just Wrote The Best Sci-Fi Book of the Year: Monica Byrne on “The Girl in the Road” . Retrieved October 31, 2015.
  5. ↑ How NASA Trained Me To Write A Book. In: The Huffington Post. Retrieved January 10, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Monica Byrne: Resume Creative Writing . April 20, 2013. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. 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. Retrieved October 30, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.monicabyrne.org
  7. ↑ a b c Lydia Kiesling: Monica Byrne, author of award-winning The Girl in the Road . Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  8. ^ Scientist finds second act as a playwright and novelist. In: MedCity News. Retrieved January 2, 2016 (American English).
  9. ↑ INTERVIEW: Monica Byrne, author of The Girl in the Road ( English ). Accessed October 30, 2015.
  10. ↑ a b New York Theater Review: FringeNYC Feature: Playwrights Monica Byrne (What Every Girl Should Know) and Lauren Ferebee (Somewhere Safer) Interview eachother . Retrieved October 31, 2015.
  11. ↑ 'What Every Girl Should Know review': Teen rebellion . Retrieved October 31, 2015.
  12. ↑ Review: Impact Theater delivers provocative 'What Every Girl Should Know' . Retrieved October 31, 2015.
  13. ^ Byron Woods: Durham's ascendant novelist and playwright Monica Byrne takes New York . Retrieved October 31, 2015.
  14. ↑ a b Book Review: 'The Girl in the Road' by Monica Byrne . In: Wall Street Journal . 
  15. ↑ A Ceaseless Storm of Matter and Energy - The Los Angeles Review of ... ( English ) Retrieved November 15, 2015.
  16. ↑ Jason Heller: 'Girl In The Road' Is A Dizzying Journey . Retrieved November 15, 2015.
  17. ↑ Monica Byrne: "The Bridge" - The World in 2068. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur. Accessed December 30, 2015 (German).
  18. ↑ Monica Byrne website , accessed August 14, 2020.
  19. ↑ Blog entry from June 18, 2010 , accessed on August 14, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Byrne, Monica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American playwright and science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Harrisburg , Pennsylvania