Nicola Griffith

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Nicola Griffith

Nicola Griffith (born September 30, 1960 in Yorkshire ) is a British author .

Life

Griffith grew up in Yorkshire, England in a family of five girls. After finishing school, Griffith studied at Michigan State University in the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop . In 1993 she contracted multiple sclerosis . She is married to the author Kelley Eskridge and lives in Seattle , United States.

Griffith wrote several books in the field of science fiction , in which she took up LGBT topics, among other things . Her first novel, published in 1993, was Ammonite , for which she received the James Tiptree, Jr. Award and the Lambda Literary Award . Her second novel, published in 1994, was Slow River , for which she received the Nebula Award and another Lambda Literary Award. Together with the author Stephen Pagel , she published the three-volume anthology Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (1997) for which she received the World Fantasy Award in 1998 , Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction (1998) and Bending the Landscape: Horror (2001) . She also wrote the crime novels The Blue Place (1998), Stay (2002) and Always (2007) and a collection of stories in 2004 under the title With Her Body . She received another Lambda Literary Award for her work And Now We Are Going to Have a Party: Liner Notes to a Writer's Early Life .

bibliography

Novels
Non-fiction
  • And Now We Are Going to Have a Party: Liner Notes to a Writer's Early Life (2007)
Anthologies
  • Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (1997, with Stephen Pagel)
  • Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction (1998, with Stephen Pagel)
  • Bending the Landscape: Horror (2001, with Stephen Pagel)
Short story collection
  • With Her Body (2004)
Short stories
  • An Other Winter's Tale (1987)
  • Mirrors and Burnstone (1988)
  • The Other (1989)
  • We Have Met the Alien (1990)
  • The Voyage South (1990)
  • Down the Path of the Sun (1990)
  • Song of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese (1991)
    • English: The song of the bullfrogs - The cry of the wild geese. 1995.
  • Wearing My Skin (1991)
  • Touching Fire (1993)
  • Yaguara (1994)
    • German: Yaguara. 1996.
  • A Troll Story (2000)
  • With Her Body (2004)
  • It Takes Two (2009)
  • Cold Wind (2014)

Awards

  • 1993: Lambda Literary Award for the novel Ammonite
  • 1993: James Tiptree, Jr. Award for the novel Ammonite
  • 1997: Nebula Award for the novel Slow River
  • 1997: Lambda Literary Award for the novel Slow River
  • 1998: Lambda Literary Award for the anthology Bending the Landscape: Fantasy
  • 1998: World Fantasy Award for Bending the Landscape: Fantasy
  • 1998: Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction with Stephen Pagel
  • 1999: Lambda Literary Award for the novel The Blue Place (Category: Lesbian mystery ) and together with Stephen Pagel for Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction (Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy)
  • 1999: Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction together with Stephen Pagel
  • 1999: Gaylactic Spectrum Award (Hall of Fame) for the novel Slow River
  • 2002: Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Bending the Landscape: Horror together with Stephen Pagel
  • 2008: Lambda Literary Award for And Now We Are Going to Have a Party (Category: Women's Memoir / Biography)
  • 2008: Premio Italia for the Italian translation of the novel Ammonite
  • 2009: Alice B. Award
  • 2013: Dr. James Duggins Mid-Career Novelist Prize at the Lambda Literary Awards

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SURNAME Griffith, Nicola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Yorkshire