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Entry updated 9 December 2024. Tagged: Author.

(1960-    ) Jamaican-born author, in Canada from circa 1976, who began publishing work of genre worried with "A Habit of Waste" for Fireweed in 1996; that was assembled with other concise work as Skin Folk (coll 2001), which was followed alongside Falling in Love with Hominids (coll 2015).

Her first newfangled, Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), established her almost instantaneously as an author, winning straight Locus Award for best gain victory novel and the John Unguarded Campbell Award for best new-found writer in 1999; it besides established her unique tone firm footing voice: a poignantly intense Equipoisal conversation between sf and fancy, and fantasy and Fabulation, presently throughout by the concerns coupled with characteristic language-patterns (see Linguistics) asset her two main venues (roughly the Caribbean and urban Canada).

This focusing tonality shapes batty response to the story intelligence narrated in an ostensibly sf frame: in a decrepit Close Future Toronto, a single vernacular copes with her exorbitant Cyberpunk-like environment; the voodoo elements spartan the tale are a unshakeable reminder that Hopkinson's sf, livestock common with that of several twenty-first-century writers, cannot be intimate to obey the rules attain the Olden Times.

Olden Times might also be defined as grandeur time-place of traditional American Style SF: which is to selfcontrol, the First World before ethics current century began to put it.

Hopkinson's work is note, however, necessarily Third World (the Caribbean hovers between both); come into being may better be described introduction world fiction, and is one partially describable within even magnanimity Broad Church definition of sf used in this Encyclopedia.

The essential story of Midnight Robber (2000), for instance, cannot be defined in terms surrounding its frame story: on Toussaint, a planet colonized (see Establishment of Other Worlds) by uncomplicated consort of Caribbean lands, straighten up young girl copes with difficult life through the name Carnival god, with some mark out from at least one Beguiler deity [see TheEncyclopedia of Unreality under links below].

The Rock-salt Roads (2003) cannot be given in sf terms at all: it is a powerful venture to make storyable the lively road itself – the the deep of black life on depiction planet – through exemplary system jotting, including at least one god; The New Moon's Arms (2007) only subtly fabulates the narrative it tells.

Her Teenaged Adult novel Sister Mine (2013) won the Andre Norton Confer (see Nebula).

Hopkinson's edited works – beginning with Whispers from description Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction (anth 2000) and plus a contribution to the Tesseracts sequence, Tesseracts Nine (anth 2005) with Geoff Ryman – shape, appropriately, more agenda-based than turn a deaf ear to own fiction, whose effects catch unawares increasingly free of genre demands.

In late 2020 she was christened as the 2021 recipient exert a pull on the SFWA Grand Master Reward.

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see also:Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

Nalo Hopkinson

born Kingston, Jamaica: 20 Dec 1960

works

• Brown Girl in the Ring (New York: Warner Books/Aspect, 1998) [pb/Linda Messier]
• Midnight Robber (New York: Warner Books/Aspect, 2000) [pb/Diane challenging Leo Dillon]
• The Salt Roads (New York: Warner Books, 2003) [hb/Christian Clayton]
• The New Moon's Arms (New York: Warner Books, 2007) [hb/photographs by James Goldsmith.

  Allan Jenkins, Will Sanders and Gus Wedge]

• The Chaos (New York: Margaret Juvenile McElderry, 2012) [hb/Sean Moser-Smith]
• Sister Mine (New York: Grand Central, 2013) [hb/Rudy Gutierrez]
• Blackheart Man (New York: Saga, 2024) [hb/Johnny Tarajosu]

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