Sabrina Calvo
Sabrina Calvo (born David Calvo on 19th September 1974 in Marseille ) is a French writer, comic - scriptwriter , Games author and illustrator. She is best known as the author of Fantastik . Her novels and stories often cross genre boundaries , for example in Toxoplasma , which was awarded the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire and Prix Rosny aîné in 2018 . The setting for the novel is Montreal , where Calvo has been living next to Paris for a long time. Her subjects are often spirituality , religion and questions of (sexual) identity. In connection with trans identity , mention should be made of the comic Akhenaton (together with Thomas Azuélos) from 2006 and the novel Sous la Colline (2015). In 2017, she declared herself a transgender person on the television program Mauvais Genre as part of the Festival of Utopiales .
Awards
- 2002: Prix Julia-Verlanger for Wonderful
- 2016: Prix Bob Morane for Sous la Colline
- 2018: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Toxoplasma
- 2018: Prix Rosny aîné for Toxoplasma
bibliography
- Novels
- Délius, une chanson d'été (1997)
- La Nuit des labyrinthes (2003)
- Wonderful (2001)
- Atomic Bomb (2002, with Fabrice Colin)
- Sunk (2005, with Fabrice Colin)
- Minuscules flocons de neige depuis dix minutes (2006)
- Elliot du Néant (2012)
- Sous la Colline (2015)
- Toxoplasma (2017)
- collection
- Nid de coucou (2007)
- Short stories
- John Frog (1998)
- Acide organique (, 2005)
- Dolorès (2006)
- Instructions au sosie (2006)
- Noël dans la cathédrale de Reims (2007)
- Nid de coucou (, 2007)
- Oui (2008, with Fabrice Colin)
- Un soleil d'hexagones (2008)
- Je vous prends tous un par un (2009)
- Effondrement des colonies (2011)
- Pragmata (2011)
- La Pythie de la Capelette (2011-2012)
- Le cul du loup (2014)
- Anonymous (2017)
- Parfum d'une mouffette (2017)
- Mkraow (2017)
- Et pourtant le ciel est toujours là (2018)
- Cagole d'Azur (2018)
- Déliance (2018)
- Reliance (2018)
- Comics (as a scriptwriter)
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Kaarib (with Jean-Paul Krassinsky )
- La Dernière vague (1999)
- Les Palmiers noirs (2001)
- Pieces de huit (2003)
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AK (with Jean-Paul Krassinsky and Laetitia Schwendimann)
- Misère (2003)
- Maladie (2006)
- Télémaque (with Thomas Azuélos , 2004)
- Akhenaton (with Thomas Azuélos, 2006)
- La Guerre civile mondiale , pour le collectif anAmnésie (2007)
- Constellations (with David Richard , 2008,)
- Vorax (with Gabriel Delmas , 2010)
- Le Grand Doudou (with Jean-Paul Krassinsky in Les fables de la poubelle 2 , 2010)
Web links
- Sabrina Calvo in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Literature by and about Sabrina Calvo in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sabrina Calvo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sabrina Calvo on nooSFere.org (French)
- David Calvo on Bedetheque.com (French)
- Personal website of Sabrina Calvo
- Sabrina Calvo , website of La Volta publishing house
- Sabrina Calvo on LibraryThing (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ François Angelier: Vive l'île de Montréal libre! In: Le Monde . November 9, 2017, accessed July 4, 2020 (French).
- ↑ Sabrina Calvo in an interview: Rencontre avec Sabrina Calvo. In: Fantastinet.com. December 12, 2017, accessed July 4, 2020 (French).
- ↑ Overview: Les Vertiges du temps: Mauvais Genres aux Utopiales à Nantes, 2017. In: Franceculture.fr. November 4, 2017, accessed July 4, 2020 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Calvo, Sabrina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Calvo, David (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer, game designer and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marseille |