Tanith Lee
Tanith Lee (married Tanith Lee Kaiine , * 19th September 1947 in London , † 24. May 2015 in East Sussex ) was a British science fiction - and fantasy - author .
Life
After completing school, she had several jobs and attended art college for a year until she found her calling in writing. In 1968 she published her first short story, consisting of only 90 words. In 1971 her youth novel The Dragon Hoard came out, but her breakthrough came in 1975 with The Birthgrave (In the Heart of the Volcano) , which was nominated for the Nebula Award for best novel that same year . She could not find a British publisher for this novel; finally the novel was published by the American publisher DAW.
Since 1976 Tanith Lee has devoted herself exclusively to writing. She wrote mostly fantasy novels, but with Don't Bite the Sun (1976) and Drinking Sapphire Wine (1977) she has published two extraordinary and widely acclaimed science fiction novels.
In Germany, their fantasy stories in the role-playing game Ruf des Warlock were used for a background world without a license.
She had been married to John Kaiine since 1992 and lived near Brighton, where she died on May 24, 2015 at the age of 67 of complications from breast cancer.
Awards
- 1980: British Fantasy Award for Death's Master
- 1983: World Fantasy Award for The Gorgon for best short story
- 1984: World Fantasy Award for Elle est Trois (La Mort) for best short story
- 1986: Gilgamé Award for Volkhavaar as best fantasy novel (in the Spanish translation)
- 1987: Gilgamé Award for Night's Master as best fantasy novel (in the Spanish translation)
- 2013: World Fantasy Award for life's work
Works
Cycles
The cycles are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.
- Vazkor Cycle (Birthgrave)
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The Birthgrave (1975)
- German: In the heart of the volcano. 1979, ISBN 3-453-30525-6 .
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Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)
- German: Vazkor. 1979, ISBN 3-453-30550-7 .
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Quest for the White Witch (1978)
- English: The White Witch. 1980, ISBN 3-453-30607-4 .
- Four-bee cycle
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Don't Bite the Sun (1976)
- English: Don't bite into the sun. 1982, ISBN 3-8118-3585-8 .
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Drinking Sapphire Wine (1977)
- German: drinks the sapphire wine. 1978, ISBN 3-442-23296-1 .
- Anackire cycle (Wars of Vis)
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The Storm Lord (1976)
- German: Lord of the Storms. 1980, ISBN 3-453-30662-7 .
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Anackire (1983)
- German: Anackire. 1986, ISBN 3-453-31331-3 .
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The White Serpent (1988)
- German: Aztira. 1990, ISBN 3-453-04500-9 .
- Castle of Dark Cycle
- 1 The Castle of Dark (1978)
- English: The castle of darkness. 1988, ISBN 3-453-03129-6 .
- 2 Prince on a White Horse (1982)
- English: The prince on the white horse. 1988, ISBN 3-453-02783-3 .
- Dark Castle, White Horse (1986, Omnibus 1 + 2)
- Tales of the Flat Earth
- 1 Night's Master (1978)
- German: Lord of the Night. 1981, ISBN 3-453-04499-1 .
- 2 Death's Master (1979)
- German: Lord of Death. 1983, ISBN 3-453-30949-9 .
- 3 Delusion's Masters (1981)
- German: Lord of Illusions. 1990, ISBN 3-453-31186-8 .
- 4 Delirium's Mistress (1986)
- German: The mistress of delirium. 1989, ISBN 3-453-03165-2 .
- 5 Night's Sorceries (1987, collection)
- English: Nocturnal magic. 1989, ISBN 3-453-03477-5 .
- Sabella cycle (Blood Stone)
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Kill the Dead (1980)
- English: The Exorcist's Song. 1983, ISBN 3-404-20050-0 .
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Sabella or the Bloodstone (1980)
- German: Sabella or the last vampire. 1982, ISBN 3-404-20045-4 .
- The Secret Books of Paradys
- The Book of the Dead / Paradys (1986)
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The Book of the Damned (1988)
- German: The damned. 1991, ISBN 3-442-24507-9 .
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The Book of the Beast (1988)
- English: The Prince of Twilight. 1991, ISBN 3-442-24508-7 .
- The Book of the Mad (1993)
- Tanaquil Trilogy (Unicorn)
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Black Unicorn (1991)
- English: The black unicorn / The girl and the black unicorn. 1994, ISBN 3-404-20237-6 .
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Gold Unicorn (1994)
- English: The golden unicorn.
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Red Unicorn (1997)
- English: The red unicorn.
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Black Unicorn / Gold Unicorn / Red Unicorn (1991)
- English: The power of the unicorn. 2002, ISBN 3-453-21423-4 (anthology).
- Scarabae Trilogy (Blood Opera)
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Dark Dance (1992)
- German: Insatiable desire. 1993, ISBN 3-453-53401-8 .
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Personal Darkness (1993)
- German: Eerie distance. 1994, ISBN 3-404-13888-0 .
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Darkness, I - Third in the Blood (1994)
- German: Egyptian Night. 1995, ISBN 3-404-13646-2 .
- Secret Books of Venus Cycle
- Faces Under Water (1998)
- Saint Fire (1999)
- A Bed of Earth (2002)
- Venus Preserved (2003)
- Claidi journals cycle
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Laws of the Wolf Tower (1998)
- German: The law of the wolf storm. 2003, ISBN 3-570-12629-3 .
- Wolf Star (2000)
- Queen of the Wolves (2001)
- Wolf Wing (2002)
- Lionwolf cycle
- Cast a Bright Shadow (2004)
- Here in Cold Hell (2005)
- No Flame but Mine (2007)
- SILVER
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The Silver Metal Lover (1981)
- German: lovers in silver. 1984, ISBN 3-404-22067-6 .
- Metallic Love (2004)
- Piratica
- Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventures upon the High Seas (2004)
- Piratica II: Return to Parrot Island (2006)
- Piratica III: The Family Sea (2007)
Single novels
- Betrothed (1968)
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The Dragon Hoard (1971, children's book)
- German: The dragon treasure. 1988, ISBN 3-7941-2985-7 .
- Animal Castle (1972)
- Companions on the Road (1975)
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East of Midnight (1977, children's book)
- German: East by midnight. 1984, ISBN 3-453-31079-9 .
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The Winter Players (1976)
- German: The winter game. 1976, ISBN 3-453-31052-7 .
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Volkhavaar (1977)
- German: Volkhavaar, the magician. 1979, ISBN 3-404-01269-0 .
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Electric Forest (1979)
- German: In the electric forest. 1986, ISBN 3-404-24081-2 .
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Shon the Taken (1979, children's book)
- German: The possessed. 1985, ISBN 3-453-31137-X .
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Day by Night (1980)
- German: daydream and night light. 1984, ISBN 3-404-24063-4 .
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Lycanthia - The Children of Wolves (1981)
- English: The children of the wolves. 1984, ISBN 3-453-44068-4 .
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Sung in Shadows (1983)
- English: Romeo and Juliet in the Otherworld. 1986, ISBN 3-404-13045-6 .
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Tamastara - The Indian Nights (1984)
- German: Indian nights. 1987, ISBN 3-404-13111-8 .
- The Beautiful Biting Machine (1984)
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Days of grass (1985)
- German: Days of the Grass. 1994, ISBN 3-453-07774-1 .
- Madame Two Swords (1988)
- A Heroine of the World (1989)
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The Blood of Roses (1990)
- English: The dark angel. 1995, ISBN 3-453-08528-0 .
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The Blood of Roses (1990)
- German: The god of the forest. 1995, ISBN 3-453-08529-9 .
- Voyage of the Basset: Islands in the Sky (1990)
- Into Gold (1991)
- Heart-Beast (1992)
- Louisa the Poisoner (1992)
- Elephantasm (1993)
- Eva Fairdeath (1994)
- Raining Cats and Dogs (1995)
- Vivia (1995)
- When the Lights Go Out (1995)
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The Gods Are Thirsty (1996)
- German: When the gods thirst .
- White as Snow (2000)
- Mortal Suns (2003)
- 34 (2004, as Esther Garber)
- Death of the Day (2004)
- L'Amber (2006)
- Wolf Star Rise (2006)
Collections
- Princess Hynchatti: And Some Other Surprises (1972)
- Champions of the Road (1979)
- Unsilent Night (1981)
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Cyrion (1982)
- German: Cyrion. ISBN 3-404-20060-8 , 1984.
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Red as Blood / Tales from the Sisters Grimmer (1983)
- German: red like blood. ISBN 3-404-13014-6 , 1985.
- The Gorgon and Other Beastly Tales (1985)
- Dreams of Dark and Light (1986)
- Women as Demons (1989)
- Forests of the Night (1989)
- Don't Bet on the Prince (1989, with Angela Carter and Jack Zipes)
- Nightshades: Thirteen Journeys Into Shadow (1993)
- Fatal Woman (2004, Collection, as Esther Garber)
- Sages And Swords: Heroic Fantasy Anthology (2006, with Eugie Foster, Ed McFadden, and Vera Nazarian)
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 250 f.
- Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 650.
- Cathy Chauvette: Lee, Tanith . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , pp. 473 f.
- John Clute : Lee, Tanith. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated February 21, 2018.
- Don D'Ammassa : Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Facts On File, New York 2005, ISBN 0-8160-5924-1 , pp. 223 f.
- Joan Gordon: Lee, Tanith . In: James Gunn : The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Viking, New York et al. a. 1988, ISBN 0-670-81041-X , p. 268 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Tanith Lee in the catalog of the German National Library
- Tanith Lee in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Tanith Lee in the Science Fiction Awards + Database
- Tanith Lee in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Works by and about Tanith Lee at Open Library
- Tanith Lee in Fantastic Fiction (English)
- Tanith Lee in Fancyclopedia 3 (English)
- Daughter of the Night (bibliography, accessed April 30, 2018)
- Interview with Tanith Lee
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sam Roberts: Tanith Lee, Fantasy and Horror Novelist, Dies at 67. In: The New York Times, June 1, 2015 (accessed June 2, 2015).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lee, Tanith |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lee Kaiine, Tanith (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British science fiction and fantasy writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London , England |
DATE OF DEATH | May 24, 2015 |
Place of death | East Sussex , England |