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( R e d i r e c t e d f r o m N . K . J e m i s i n )
American science fiction and fantasy writer
Nora Keita Jemisin [1] science fiction and fantasy writer. Her fiction includes a wide range of themes, notably cultural conflict and oppression.[2] [3] debut novel , The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms Inheritance Trilogy Locus Award . The three books of her Broken Earth seriesHugo Award for Best Novel in three consecutive years, as well as the first to win for all three novels in a trilogy.[4] Emergency Skin [5] MacArthur Fellows Program Genius Grant in 2020.[6]
Early life
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Jemisin was born in Iowa City, Iowa , while her parents Noah Jemisin and Janice (Finklea) Jemisin were completing masters programs at the University of Iowa .[7] New York City and Mobile, Alabama . Jemisin attended Tulane University from 1990 to 1994, where she received a B.S. in psychology . She went on to study counseling and earn her Master of Education from the University of Maryland . She lived in Massachusetts for ten years and then moved to New York City.[8] counseling psychologist and career counselor before writing full-time.[8] [2]
Career
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A graduate of the 2002 Viable Paradise writing workshop,[9] [10] [10] Non-Zero Probabilities " was a finalist for the Nebula and Hugo Best Short Story Awards.[11]
Jemisin's debut novel , The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms Inheritance Trilogy , was published in 2010. It was nominated for the 2010 Nebula Award and short-listed for the James Tiptree Jr. Award .[12] [13] Hugo Award , World Fantasy Award ,[14] Locus Award for Best First Novel , winning the latter.[15] The Broken Kingdoms The Kingdom of Gods
During her delivery of the Guest of Honour speech at the 2013 Continuum in Australia, Jemisin pointed out that 10% of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) membership voted for alt-right writer Theodore Beale, known as Vox Day , in his bid for the SFWA presidential position, stating that silence about Beale's views was the same as enabling them.[16] [17] Twitter feed, and Beale was subsequently expelled from the organization after a unanimous vote by the SFWA Board.[18]
Jemisin was a co-Guest of Honor of the 2014 WisCon science fiction convention in Madison, Wisconsin .[19] GQ [20] Arisia 2015 in Boston , Massachusetts.[21] The New York Times [22] Patreon campaign which raised sufficient funding to allow her to quit her job as a counseling psychologist and focus full-time on her writing.[23]
Jemisin's novel The Fifth Season Broken Earth trilogy. The Fifth Season won the Hugo Award for Best Novel , making Jemisin the first African-American writer to win a Hugo award in that category.[24] The Obelisk Gate The Stone Sky [25] [26] Hugo Award for Best Novel in three consecutive years, as well as the first to win for all three novels in a trilogy.[4] Bustle [27]
With Mac Walters, Jemisin co-authored the 2017 book Mass Effect: Andromeda Initiation Mass Effect: Andromeda [28] How Long 'til Black Future Month? [29] Far Sector Eisner Award for Best Limited Series.[30]
Jemisin's urban fantasy novel The City We Became MacArthur Fellows Program Genius Grant.[6] TriStar Pictures won the rights to adapt The Broken Earth trilogy in a seven-figure deal with Jemisin adapting the novels for the screen herself.[31] Time 100Time ' s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.[32] The World We Make , a sequel to Jemisin's 2020 novel, was released in November 2022.
Personal life
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Jemisin lives and works in Brooklyn , New York.[33] first cousin once removed to stand-up comic and television host W. Kamau Bell .[34] [35]
Awards and honors
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Novels
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In 2022, Kirkus Reviews The World We Make one of the best science fiction and fantasy books of the year.[36]
Jemisin is the first author to win three successive Hugo Awards for Best Novel.[40]
Short fiction
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Selected bibliography
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Novels
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Inheritance Trilogy
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A novella entitled The Awakened Kingdom set as a sequel to the Inheritance Trilogy was released along with an omnibus of the trilogy on December 9, 2014.[45]
A "triptych " entitled Shades in Shadow was released on July 28, 2015. It contained three short stories, including a prequel to the trilogy.[46]
Dreamblood Duology
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Broken Earth series
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Mass Effect: Andromeda
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Great Cities Series
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The short story "The City Born Great", released in 2016, is a precursor to the series and was adapted to serve as the prologue for The City We Became .
Short stories
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"L'Alchimista", published in Scattered, Covered, Smothered , Two Cranes Press, 2004. Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror , 18th collectionEscape Pod [49]
"Too Many Yesterdays, Not Enough Tomorrows", Ideomancer
"Cloud Dragon Skies", Strange Horizons , 2005. Also an Escape Pod episode
"Red Riding-Hood's Child", Fishnet , 2005.
"The You Train", Strange Horizons
"Bittersweet", Abyss & Apex Magazine
"The Narcomancer", Helix , reprinted in Transcriptase , 2007.
"The Brides of Heaven", Helix , reprinted in Transcriptase , 2007.
"Playing Nice With God's Bowling Ball", Baen's Universe , 2008.
"The Dancer's War", published in Like Twin Stars: Bisexual Erotic Stories , Circlet Press , 2009.
"Non-Zero Probabilities", Clarkesworld Magazine , 2009.
"Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints in the City Beneath the Still Waters", Postscripts
"On the Banks of the River Lex", Clarkesworld Magazine
"The Effluent Engine", published in Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories , Torquere Press, 2011.
"The Trojan Girl", Weird Tales
"Valedictorian", published in After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia , Hyperion Book CH, 2012.
"Walking Awake", Lightspeed , 2014.
"Stone Hunger", Clarkesworld Magazine , 2014.
"Sunshine Ninety-Nine", Popular Science
"The City Born Great", published as a Tor.com exclusive available for free online,[50]
"Red Dirt Witch", Fantasy Magazine: PoC Destroy Fantasy , 2016.
"The Evaluators", Wired Magazine
"Henosis", Uncanny Magazine
"Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death", A People's Future of the United States , 2017.
"The Storyteller's Replacement", How Long til Black Future Month , 2018.
"The Elevator Dancer", How Long til Black Future Month , 2018.
"Cuisine des Mémoires", How Long til Black Future Month , 2018.
"Emergency Skin ", Amazon Original Stories:Forward , 2019. Winner of Hugo Award for best novelette.[51]
"The Ones Who Stay and Fight", Lightspeed Magazine, 2020.
"Reckless Eyeballing", published in Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, Random House, 2023.
Short story collections
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Nonfiction
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Comics
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See also
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References
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^ a b "N.K. Jemisin on THE HUNDRED THOUSAND KINGDOMS" . Orbit Blog (Blog). Orbit Books. August 22, 2012. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
^ Novik, Naomi (August 12, 2015). "Book Review: 'The Fifth Season,' by N. K. Jemisin" . The New York Times . Retrieved August 31, 2018 .
^ a b El-Mohtar, Amal (March 24, 2020). "When a Sinister Enemy Attacks New York, the City Fights Back" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
^ "Hugo Awards" . Twitter . Retrieved June 10, 2022 .
^ a b "N. K. Jemisin" . MacArthur Foundation . October 6, 2020.
^ Khatchadourian, Raffi (January 27, 2020). "N. K. Jemisin's Dream Worlds" . The New Yorker
^ a b "N.K. Jemisin: Rites of Passage" . Locus . August 18, 2010. She studied psychology at Tulane in New Orleans, and went to grad school to study counseling at the University of Maryland-College Park.
^ "N.K. Jemisin: Rites of Passage" . Locus . August 18, 2010. Retrieved September 7, 2016 .
^ a b Jones, Jeremy L. C. (August 2010). "Even the Best Stories Have Flaws: Inside Altered Fluid" . Clarkesworld Magazine .
^ Jemisin, N. K. (September 2009). "Non-Zero Probabilities" . Clarkesworld Magazine 36 . Retrieved August 16, 2017 .
^ "2010 Award Winners & Nominees" . Worlds Without End . Tres Barbas, LLC. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
^ "2010 James Tiptree, Jr. Award" . James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award . James Tiptree Jr. Literary Council. March 21, 2011. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
^ "World Fantasy Nominees and Lifetime Achievement Winners" . Locus
^ "Locus Awards 2011 Winners" . Locus . June 25, 2011.
^ Khanna, Rajan (November 26, 2013). "Controversies Inside the World of Science Fiction and Fantasy" . Retrieved September 8, 2016 .
^ El-Mohtar, Amal (June 13, 2013). "Calling for the Expulsion of Theodore Beale from SFWA" . Archived from the original on February 6, 2021. Retrieved January 14, 2016 .
^ "SFWA Board Votes to Expel Beale" . Locus . August 14, 2013.
^ "Announcing WisCon 38's Guests of Honor: Hiromi Goto and N.K. Jemisin" A Momentary Taste of WisCon 37 (Elizabeth Stone, ed.) Issue #4 (May 26, 2013), p. 2.
^ Rivera, Joshua (November 28, 2018). "N.K. Jemisin Is Trying to Keep the World From Ending" . GQ . Retrieved March 27, 2020 . But there were those in the speculative fiction community who still didn't want her, or anyone like her—a black woman born in Iowa City and raised between Mobile, Alabama and Brooklyn, New York with a day job as a counseling psychologist— to have a seat at the same table as them.
^ "Guest of Honor Bios" . Arisia 2015 .
^ Zutter, Natalie (January 4, 2016). "N.K. Jemisin Launches SFF Column at The New York Times Book Review " . Tor.com . Retrieved August 13, 2017 .
^ a b c Kehe, Jason (June 7, 2016). "WIRED Book Club: Fantasy Writer N.K. Jemisin on the Weird Dreams That Fuel Her Stories" . Wired . Retrieved September 7, 2016 .
^ Alter, Alexander (August 24, 2016), "N. K. Jemisin on Diversity in Science Fiction and Inspiration From Dreams" , The New York Times
^ a b "2017 Hugo Awards" . December 31, 2016. Retrieved August 11, 2017 .
^ a b "2018 Hugo Awards" . August 19, 2018.
^ Wilson, Kristian (January 10, 2017). "The Sci-Fi Writer Every Woman Needs To Be Reading Has 3 New Books Coming" . Bustle . Retrieved August 12, 2017 .
^ a b Liz Bourke (November 30, 2017). "Space Espionage — Mass Effect: Initiation by N.K. Jemisin and Mac Walters" . Tor.com. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
^ "Gorgeous 'Black Future Month' Tracks A Writer's Development" . NPR.org . Retrieved October 8, 2020 .
^ "DC Garners Seventeen 2021 Eisner Award Nominations" . DC Comics . Retrieved June 10, 2021 .
^ Fleming, Mike Jr (June 4, 2021). "N.K. Jemisin Book Series 'The Broken Earth' Lands At Sony's TriStar In 7-Figure Deal; Author To Adapt" . Deadline Hollywood Penske Media Corporation .
^ Specker, Lawrence (September 15, 2021). "Time's '100 most influential' list includes trio with Alabama ties" . AL.com . Retrieved November 14, 2021 .
^ Payne, Marshall (June 28, 2011). "Nebula Awards 2010 Interview: N.K. Jemisin" . SFWA . Retrieved January 14, 2016 .
^ Bell, W. Kamau. The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell . New York, NY: Dutton, 2017, pp. 24, 28. ISBN 978-1-101-98587-8 .
^ Schaub, Michael (August 22, 2016). "Women and writers of color win big at Hugo Awards and the Puppies are even sadder" . Los Angeles Times
^ "Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2022" . Kirkus Reviews . Retrieved November 27, 2022 .
^ a b c d e f g h i j "N. K. Jemisin Awards" . Science Fiction Awards Database Archived from the original on May 5, 2021.
^ "2016 Hugo Awards" . The Hugo Awards . Retrieved October 13, 2016 .
^ "SFWA Announces 2016 Nebula, Norton, and Bradbury Award Nominees!" . The Nebula Awards . Retrieved March 6, 2017 .
^ Clute, John ; Langford, David ; et al., eds. (June 28, 2021). "Jemisin, N K" . The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Archived from the original on January 14, 2021.
^ "William L. Crawford – IAFA Fantasy Award 2011" . Science Fiction Awards Database . Retrieved September 7, 2016 .
^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alt55nkjXGI "BSFA 2020 Awards Announcement", accessed on 4 April 2021
^ "American Library Association announces 2019 youth media award winners" . American Library Association . Retrieved March 7, 2019 .
^ "The Inheritance Trilogy" . Nkjemisin.com .
^ "So, about that Seekrit Project I've been working on…" . Nkjemisin.com . April 30, 2014.
^ "Now it can be told!" . Nkjemisin.com . June 25, 2015.
^ Das, Indrapramit (May 2, 2012). "In Dreams: N.K. Jemisin's The Killing Moon " . Slant Magazine . Archived from the original on May 16, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2012 .
^ White, N. E. (August 27, 2013). "The Shadowed Sun by N. K. Jemisin – SFFWorld" . Retrieved October 8, 2020 .
^ "Escape Pod 38: L'Alchimista" . Escape Pod . January 25, 2006. Retrieved October 19, 2020 .
^ "The City Born Great" . tor.com . May 12, 2020.
^ "2020 Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards Winners" . Locus Online . August 1, 2020. Retrieved August 1, 2020 .
^ "Gorgeous 'Black Future Month' Tracks A Writer's Development" . NPR.org . Retrieved October 8, 2020 .
^ Jemisin, N. K.; Valentine, Genevieve ; San Juan, Eric; Hasan, Zaki (2011). Segal, Stephen H. (ed.). Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture ISBN 9781594745270
^ "DC Garners Seventeen 2021 Eisner Award Nominations" . DC Comics . Retrieved June 10, 2021 .
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