Nalo Hopkinson

Nalo Hopkinson, 2007

Nalo Hopkinson (born December 20, 1960 in Jamaica ) is a Canadian author .

Life

Hopkinson was born in Jamaica in 1960. After finishing school, Hopkinson studied at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

In 1995 she participated in the renowned Clarion workshop for budding science fiction and fantasy authors, where she subsequently also worked as a lecturer. As a writer, Hopkinson has written several novels and short stories in the fields of science fiction and fantasy and has received several prizes and awards for her work. Hopkinson became a Canadian citizen and lives in Canada.

Works

Novels

• Brown Girl in the Ring , Aspect / Warner Books 1998, ISBN 0-446-67433-8
• Midnight Robber , Aspect / Warner Books 1998, ISBN 0-446-67560-1
• The Salt Roads , Warner Books 2003, ISBN 0-446-53302-5
• The New Moon's Arms , Warner Books 2007, ISBN 0-446-57691-3
• The Chaos , Margaret K. McElderry Books 2012, ISBN 978-1-4169-5488-0
• Sister Mine , Grand Central Publishing 2013, ISBN 978-0-446-57692-5

Short story collections

• Skin Folk , Aspect / Warner Books 2001, ISBN 0-446-67803-1
• Report from Planet Midnight , PM Press 2012, ISBN 978-1-60486-497-7
• Falling in Love with Hominids , Tachyon Publications 2015, ISBN 978-1-61696-198-5

Anthologies

• Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction , Invisible Cities Press 2000, ISBN 0-9679683-2-1
• Mojo: Conjure Stories , Aspect / Warner Books 2003, ISBN 0-446-67929-1
• So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy , Arsenal Pulp Press 2004, ISBN 1-55152-158-X (with Uppinder Mehan)
• Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction , Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing 2005, ISBN 1-894063-26-0 (with Geoff Ryman )
• Particulates , Dia Art Foundation 2018, ISBN 978-0-944521-88-5

Prizes and awards (selection)

• 1999 Locus Award for the novel Brown Girl in the Ring (Best Debut)
• 1999 nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award for Brown Girl in the Ring
• 1999 John W. Campbell Best New Writer Award
• 2002 World Fantasy Award for her collection of short stories Skin Folk
• 2002 Sunburst Award for her collection of short stories Skin Folk
• 2004 Gaylactic Spectrum Award for the novel Salt Roads
• 2007 Sunburst Award for the novel The New Moon's Arms
• 2017 British Fantasy Award for the anthology People of Color Destroy Science Fiction
• 2019 inclusion in the anthology New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby

Web links

• Literature by and about Nalo Hopkinson in the catalog of the German National Library
• Nalo Hopkinson in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Nalo Hopkinson in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• Works by and about Nalo Hopkinson at Open Library
• Official website of Nalo Hopkinson
• Interview on SSF World