Trudi Canavan

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Trudi Canavan (born October 23, 1969 in Kew , Melbourne , Australia ) is an Australian writer . She mainly publishes works in the fantasy genre and achieved greater fame with the Black Magician trilogy (German Die Gilde der Schwarzen Magier ) from 2001 to 2003.

Life

Trudi Canavan was born in Kew and grew up in Ferntree Gully, a suburb of Melbourne . After school, she studied Promotional Display at the Melbourne College of Decoration of Victoria University . Trudi Canavan went freelance as a graphic designer and worked part-time to write novels in parallel. In the mid to late 1990s, a trilogy was created, which she revised several times and later received the title The Black Magician Trilogy . But she only achieved greater fame when her short story Whispers of the Mist Children was awarded the Aurealis Award in 1999. Trudi Canavan applied to the publisher under a pseudonym , as she had previously worked for them as art director .

2001 appeared under the title The Magicians' Guild ( German Die Rebellin ) the first part of the fantasy trilogy The Black Magician Trilogy (German Die Gilde der Schwarzen Magier ). It is about the rebellious sorceress Sonea, who grows up as a street child in a medieval -looking city and discovers her magical powers. 2002 followed with The Novice (German The novice ), the next novel by Trudi Canavan again for the Aurealis Award in the category "Fantasy Novel" was nominated. The trilogy was concluded with the work The High Lord (German Die Meisterin ) in 2003, which reached the final round of the Ditmar Award . After the trilogy became a bestseller in Australia , Orbit Books and HarperCollins began publishing them internationally from 2004 onwards. According to Nielsen BookScan , The Black Mages Guild was one of the most successful series of the 2000s. In the German-speaking countries, Blanvalet and cbt published Trudi Canavan's trilogy from 2006, and for Die Rebellin it was awarded the German Fantastic Prize as the best international novel .

On The Magicians' Guild followed with Age of the Five (German Age of the Five ) another trilogy consisting of the novels Priestess of the White (2005, Priest ), Last of the Wilds (2006, German magician ) and Voice of the Gods (2006, German gods ) exists. At the center of the plot is the protagonist Auraya and a religious war instigated by the gods . The first volume already reached third place in the bestseller list of the Australian Sunday Times . 2009 Trudi Canavan published with The Magician's Apprentice (German Magic ) at Orbit Books again a work of The Magicians' Guild series, which is content to be regarded as history. Trudi Canavan received her second Aurealis Award in the Fantasy Novel category in 2009 , with the jury particularly emphasizing the presentation and development of the characters .

From 2010 to 2012 The Magicians 'Guild was continued with the works The Ambassadors' Mission (German Die Hüterin ), The Rogue (German Die Heilerin ) and The Traitor Queen (German Die Königin ) in the so-called The Traitor Spy Trilogy (German Sonea ). For example, the second volume, which also became a bestseller in German-speaking countries, received special attention . The Rogue was voted one of the Best Books of 2011 by Goodreads . By the time of its publication, over 1.7 million copies of Trudi Canavan's books had been sold here. Trudi Canavan is currently working on her fourth multi-part, a tetralogy initially planned as a trilogy, under the title Millennium's Rule (German The Magic of a Thousand Worlds ), whose first novel Thief's Magic was published in May 2014. In November 2014 the German translation was published under the title Die Begabte .

Trudi Canavan is the author of numerous short stories and participated, for example, in the BBC's Doctor Who series . In addition to her work as a writer, she sometimes helps design her books, for example the cover picture for Fables & Reflections # 5 was nominated for a Ditmar Award 2003 as best professional illustration . As early as 1996, she was proposed in the Aurealis and Eidolon magazines in the category for her illustrations . Trudi Canavan lives with her husband in Melbourne , Australia .

Awards

Works

The Black Mages Guild

  • The rebel . Blanvalet, Munich 2006 (Original title: The Magicians' Guild ), ISBN 3-442-24394-7 .
  • The novice . Blanvalet, Munich 2006 (Original title: The Novice ), ISBN 3-442-24395-5 .
  • The master . Blanvalet, Munich 2006 (Original title: The High Lord ), ISBN 3-442-24396-3 .

The age of five

Sonea

The magic of a thousand worlds

  • The gifted . Penhaligon, Munich 2014 (Original title: Thief's Magic. Translated by Michaela Link), ISBN 978-3-7645-3105-8 .
  • The Wanderer . Penhaligon, Munich 2015 (Original title: Angel of Storms , translated by Michaela Link), ISBN 978-3-7645-3106-5 .
  • The mighty one . Penhaligon, Munich 2017 (original title: Successor's Promise , translated by Michaela Link), ISBN 978-3-7645-3107-2 .
  • The creator . Penhaligon, Munich 2020 (original title: Maker's Curse , translated by Michaela Link), ISBN 978-3-7645-3201-7 .

Short stories

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Trudi Canavan. ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Buchwelt , accessed on June 25, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / buchwelt.de
  2. ↑ a b About Trudi , accessed on June 25, 2014 (English).
  3. ^ Trudi Canavan. In: Phantastik-Couch , accessed July 1, 2014.
  4. ↑ My Story , accessed June 25, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b Dirk Strasser, Stephen Higgins: Aurealis # 23. ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. April 1999, accessed June 25, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aurealis.com.au
  6. ↑ Archives: Aurealis Interviews ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on June 25, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aurealis.com.au
  7. ↑ Review of The Magicians' Guild by Trudi Canavan. In: Lovelybooks , accessed July 1, 2014.
  8. ↑ 2003 Aurealis Awards. In: The Locus Index , accessed July 1, 2014.
  9. ↑ 2004 Ditmar Awards. ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: The Locus Index , accessed July 1, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.locusmag.com
  10. ↑ bestseller list of the San Francisco Chronicle ( sfgate.com ), no longer available.
  11. ^ Nielsen BookScan , accessed July 1, 2014.
  12. ↑ Trudi Canavan receives the German Fantastic Prize . In: BuchMarkt . October 15, 2007, accessed July 7, 2014.
  13. ↑ Age of the Five , accessed July 1, 2014.
  14. ↑ The Age of Five: Trudi Canavan's Trilogy. ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Buchwelt , accessed on July 1, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / buchwelt.de
  15. ↑ Magic of Trudi Canavan. In: Phantastik-Couch , accessed July 1, 2014.
  16. ↑ a b Aurealis Awards 2009 Fantasy Novel Judges' Report . ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 109 kB; English) accessed on July 1, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aurealisawards.com
  17. ↑ Sat.1 Breakfast TV: Book title of the broadcast of tomorrow. In: BuchMarkt . May 17, 2010, accessed July 1, 2014.
  18. ↑ Gods in the bestselling Olympus. In: book report . May 26, 2011, accessed July 1, 2014.
  19. ↑ The Best Books of 2011 , accessed July 1, 2014.
  20. ↑ Horror is fun . Trudi Canavan's work. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , June 7, 2011.
  21. ↑ Millennium's Rule Trilogy , accessed July 1, 2014.
  22. ↑ Maker's Curse: Book Four of Millennium's Rule , compiled on July 17, 2017, accessed on September 16, 2017.
  23. ↑ The Magic of a Thousand Worlds - The Gifted , accessed July 10, 2014.
  24. ^ Trudi Canavan: Time Tripping with Doctor Who. July 20, 2013, accessed July 1, 2014.
  25. ↑ Ditmar Awards Winners by Category. ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: The Locus Index , accessed July 1, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.locusmag.com
  26. ^ Trudi Canavan: The Traitor Queen . Hachette Digita, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-7481-2862-4 ("About the Author").
  27. ↑ 2004 Ditmar Awards. ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: The Locus Index , accessed July 1, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.locusmag.com
  28. ^ German Fantastic Prize , accessed on July 1, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Canavan, Trudi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian fantasy writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Kew , Melbourne, Australia