Jo Walton

Jo Walton ( born December 1, 1964 in Aberdare, Wales ) is a Welsh- Canadian fantasy and science fiction author. She won for her novel Among Others (German: In another world ) 2011 the Nebula Award and the 2012 Hugo Award.

Biography

Walton was born in Aberdare, a need in the Welsh coal mining area in Cynon Valley industrial city. After visiting the Park School in Aberdare, she attended the Aberdare Girls ' Grammar School. She lived for a year in Cardiff and went there to Howell 's School Llandaff. Her formal schooling, she completed on the Oswestry School in Shropshire and then the University of Lancaster. After spending two years in London, she moved in connection to Lancaster. In 1997 she moved to Swansea. Since 2002 she lives in Montreal, Canada. She is now a Canadian citizen. She is married to Dr. Emmet was born in Iceland A. O'Brien and has a son. Walton speaks Welsh. She says on this subject: " Welsh was the second native language of my family, my grandmother was a well known Welsh teacher and translator. I myself learned the language from my 5th to my 16 years in school and master grammar and vocabulary as part of my decade-long learning. With the debate, I have no problems in any case. "

Work

Although Walton since the age of 13 writes her first novel was published only in 2000. Previously, she wrote a series of articles in publications for role-playing games, such as the British Pyramid magazines, most of them along with her ​​then-husband Ken Walton. Walton was active in the online science fiction fandom, especially rec.arts.sf.written in the Usenet forums and rec.arts.sf.fandom. Your poem The Lurkers Support Me in Email has been cited in many discussions and comments, often without her name was called. Her first three novels The King's Peace (2000), The King's Name ( 2001) and The Prize in the Game ( 2002) were from the field of fantasy. They all played in a world that is based on the Kingdom of King Arthur and Táin Bó Cúailnges Ireland. Her next novel Tooth and Claw (2003) was designed as if the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope could have written it, but about dragons instead of people.

Farthing was her first sci-fi novel. They mixed the shape of the cozy mystery with the SF subgenre of alternative course of history, in which the UK has made peace with Hitler before the United States to enter the Second World War. The novel was nominated for the Nebula Award, the Quill Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel, and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. A sequel titled Ha'penny was published in October 2007 by Tor Books .. In September 2008, followed by Half a Crown of the third and final part of this trilogy. Ha'penny won the 2008 Prometheus Award ( jointly with Harry Turtledove 's novel The Gladiator ) and was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award.

Since 2008, Walton writes a column for Tor.com, mostly book reviews more recent works.

Awards

Walton won a number of prestigious awards in the field of science fiction and fantasy. Your 2011 published novel Among Others is one of only seven novels, which succeeded so far, to be nominated in the Best Novel for both the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, as well as for the World Fantasy Award. She won so the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award.

She won the 2002 John W. Campbell Award for best young author and the 2004 World Fantasy Award for her novel Tooth and Claw. Her novel Ha'penny won the 2008 Prometheus Award. The novel won the 2010 Mythopoeic Award Lifelode.

Bibliography

Novels

  • The King's Peace (October 2000, Tor Books, ISBN 0-312-87229-1 )
  • The King's Name ( in December 2001, Tor Books, ISBN 0 - 312-87653 -X)
  • The Prize in the Game ( December 2002, Tor Books, ISBN 0-7653-0263-2 )
  • Tooth and Claw (November 2003, Tor Books, ISBN 0-7653-0264-0 )
  • Farthing ( August 2006, Tor Books, ISBN 0-7653-1421-5 )
  • Ha'penny (October 2007, Tor Books, ISBN 0-7653-1853-9 )
  • Half a Crown (August 2008, Tor Books )
  • Lifelode ( February 2009, NESFA Press, ISBN 1-886778-82-5 )
  • Among Others (January 2011, Tor Books ), ISBN 978-0-7653-2153-4; Nebula Award for Best Novel 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2011 and nominated for the World Fantasy Award

Other works

  • GURPS Celtic Myth ( with Ken Walton ) (1995, supplement for role players )
  • Muses and Lurkers (2001, Poetry Chapbook, edited by Eleanor Evans )
  • Realms of Sorcery ( with Ken Walton ) (2002, supplement for role players )
  • Sybil and Space Ships Poetry Chapbook (2009, NESFA Press)

German translations

  • The Clan of the Claw: A dragon - novel, translated by Andreas Decker (October 2000, Piper Verlag, Munich and Zurich, ISBN 3492265928 )
  • In another world, novel, translated by Hannes Riffel ( March 2013, Golkonda -Verlag Berlin, ISBN 9783942396752 )
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