Saladin Ahmed

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Saladin Ahmed (born October 4, 1975 in Detroit , Michigan ) is an American fantasy and comic book author, best known for the oriental fantasy novel The Sword of the Dawn .

Life

Ahmed's family comes from Lebanon and Egypt on his father's side and from Poland and Ireland on his mother's side . His parents were both political activists, his father Ismael Ahmed was the founder of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) and head of the Michigan Department of Human Services from 2007 to 2011 . Ahmed grew up in Dearborn on the outskirts of Detroit, where there is a large Arab diaspora. After high school he studied at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn and then at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor . He started writing poetry and traveled around the country as a participant in poetry slams . He then earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Brooklyn College, New York, and finally a master's degree in 18th-century English literature from Rutgers University , where he subsequently worked as a lecturer .

In 2009 Ahmed, who until then had published poetry in several literary magazines in addition to appearing as a poetry slammer, switched to the fantasy genre . He began to publish short stories in anthologies and magazines and his second story Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela was nominated for the 2010 Nebula Award . Engraved on the Eye , a collection of Ahmed's stories, was published in 2012. Also in 2012, his first novel, Throne of the Crescent Moon (German as The Sword of the Twilight ) was published. The novel won the Locus Award for best novel debut and was nominated for the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for best novel and for the David Gemmell Award as Best Fantasy Newcomer .

Throne of the Crescent Moon is the first part of Crescent Moon Kingdoms , one in a fantastic, on the Arabian Nights ajar, of ghouls and jinn settled bevölkertem Orient trilogy . The main character is Adoulla Machslûd, an aging ghoul hunter in the city of Dhamsawaat, who, together with a group of magically talented friends, is trying to solve a series of murders. It turns out that the murders are related to the riots simmering in the city and the power struggle between the caliph and the "falcon prince", a mysterious master thief. In 2017 the second volume The Thousand and One was released .

In 2017 Ahmed, whose first reading experiences were comics, began writing comics scripts for Marvel , initially for a monthly solo series of the character Black Bolt and since April 2018 for the series Exiles .

In 2007 Ahmed married the psychologist and songwriter Hayley Thompson and in 2010 had twins. He lives in Detroit with his family.

bibliography

Crescent Moon Kingdoms (novel trilogy)
  • Throne of the Crescent Moon (2012)
  • The Thousand and One (2017)
Novels
  • Low Chicago ( Wild Cards - Novel # 25; 2018; with Paul Cornell, Marko Kloos, John J. Miller, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Christopher Rowe, and Melinda M. Snodgrass )
collection
  • Engraved on the Eye: Short Fantasy & Science Fiction (2012)
  • Where Virtue Lives (2009, in: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, # 15 )
  • Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela (2009, in: Mike Allen (Ed.): Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness )
  • Judgment of Swords and Souls (in: Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, # 14, September 2009 )
  • Doctor Diablo Goes Through the Motions (in: Strange Horizons, 15 February 2010 )
  • General Akmed's Revenge? (in: Expanded Horizons, Issue 16, March 2010 )
  • Mister Hadj's Sunset Ride (2010, in: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, # 43 )
  • The Faithful Soldier, Prompted (2010, in: StarShipSofa, No 163 )
  • The Djinn Prince in America: A Microepic in 9 Tracks (in: Apex Magazine, August 2011 )
  • Iron Eyes and the Watered-Down World (2012, in: PodCastle, # 220 )
  • Amethyst, Shadow, and Light (2013, in: Jonathan Strahan (Ed.): Fearsome Journeys )
  • Without Faith, Without Law, Without Joy (2013, in: Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Eds.): Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales )
  • Clay and Smokeless Fire (2017, in: PodCastle, PC 476 )
  • Rules of the Game (2017; Star Wars story)
    • German: The rules of the game. In: Saladin Ahmed, Rae Carson, Mira Grant and John Jackson Miller (Eds.): Canto Bight. Translated by Andreas Kasprzak. Blanvalet Fantasy # 6173, 2018, ISBN 978-3-7341-6173-5 .
comics
  • Black Bolt (Marvel, 2017-2018, artist: Christian James Ward)
  • Amazing Spider-Man Annual # 1 (2018)
  • Exiles (Marvel, since 2018)

German:

Miles Morales ( Spider-Man , with Javier Garrón, German):

  • Miles Morales: Spider-Man # 1 - Diary of a Young Hero. Translated by Michael Strittmatter. Panini, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-7367-4958-0 .
  • with Ron Ackins, Tom Taylor, Alitha E. Martinez, Cory Smith, and Annie Wu : Miles Morales: Spider-Man Reboot # 2: Ultimate Dangers. Translated by Michael Strittmatter. Panini, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-7416-1636-5 .
  • Miles Morales: Spider-Man - Reboot # 3. Panini, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-7416-1883-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Biography ( Memento from November 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. Jump up ↑ The Sword of Dawn. Heyne, 2016, ISBN 978-3-453-31589-1 , notes on the author.
personal data
SURNAME Ahmed, Saladin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American fantasy author
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan