Tamora Pierce
Tamora Pierce ( born December 13, 1954 in Connellsville, Pennsylvania) is an American writer.
Tamora Pierce was supposed to Tamara hot, but a sister of the hospital wrote after her birth a false name on. She has two younger sisters named Kimberly and Melanie. At the age of ten years, Pierce and her family moved to the vicinity of San Francisco, in 1969 with her mother and sisters back to Fayette County, Pennsylvania. After high school, Pierce studied psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Tamora Pierce began writing at the age of eleven years. Almost all novels published by it are fantasy Youth books. Her work is heavily influenced by The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien. To date she has written 20 novels and published three short stories. The German translations published by Arena.
In the late 1970s, early 1980s, she wrote a 732 page novel under the title Song of the Lioness. The work was published in four parts because the publisher the manuscript on the grounds rejected, no child would read such thick books. In 1983 the first volume of the series in English. Later, her novels were again extensive. In an afterword to Trickster 's Queen, she writes that she could grasp the extent of four books in two now that JK Rowling had taught the Americans with their Harry Potter novels to read even more extensive works.
Pierce now lives together with Tim Love, four cats and two budgies in Manhattan.
For their great achievements in youth literature, she received the 2013 Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association.
- 2.1 Books in Tortall 2.1.1 Alanna
- 2.1.2 Dhana
- 2.1.3 Protector of the Small - Keladry
- 2.1.4 Daughter of the Lioness - Alianne
Works (Overview)
Books in Tortall
Alanna - The Song of the Lioness Quartet
- The Black Town, 1985, ISBN 3-401-01815-9, Alanna: The first adventure, 1983
- Under the spell of the goddess, 1986, ISBN 3-401-01816-7, In the Hand of the Goddess, 1984
- The Broken Sword, 1987, ISBN 3-401-01817-5, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man, 1986
- The jewel of power, 1988, ISBN 3-401-01818-3, Lioness Rampant 1988
Dhana - The Immortals Quartet
- Struggle to Tortall, 1992, ISBN 3-401-01965-1, Wild Magic, 1992
- In the valley of the Long Lake, 1993, ISBN 3-401-01966- X, Wolf Speaker, 1993
- The Imperial mage, 1995, ISBN 3-401-01967-8, The Emperor Mage, 1994
- In the Realm of the Gods, 1996, ISBN 3-401-01968-6, The Realms of the Gods, 1995
Under the Sign of the Lioness - Protector of the Small
- The decision, in 2007, ISBN 3-570-30384-5, First Test, 1999
- Page, 2000
- Squire, 2001
- Lady Knight, 2002
Lia - The Daughter of the Lioness (English )
- The prophecy of the Queen, 2006, ISBN 3-401-05647-6, Trickster 's Choice, 2003
- Trickster 's Queen, 2004
The Provost 's Dog
(not yet published in German )
- Terrier ( 2006)
- Bloodhound (2009)
- Mastiff (2011)
Books in Emelan
Emelan - Circle of Magic
- In the realm of magic, 1999, ISBN 3-401-02205-9, Sandry 's Book - The Magic in the Weaving, 1997
- The Magic Fleet, 2000, ISBN 3-401-04877-5, Tris 's Book - The Power in the Storm, 1998
- In the valley of the Thousand fire, 2000, ISBN 3-401-04993-3, Daja 's Book - The Fire in the Forging, 1998
- Briar 's Book - The Healing in the Vine, 1999
The Circle Opens
- Magic Steps, 2001
- Street Magic, 2002
- ColdFire, 2003
- Shatterglass, 2004
The Circle Reforged
- The Will of the Empress, 2005
- Melting Stones, 2007
- Battle Magic, 2013
Audiobooks
Tamora Pierce's books, many of were also produced when English audio book versions, so far there is only a German audiobook series.
English
The book series The Song of the Lioness, The Protector of the Small, Daughter of the Lioness and The Provost 's Dog were all produced by Listening Library unabridged as audiobooks. Read were the audiobooks from Trini Alvarado ( Alanna and Aly- books), Bernadette Dunne ( Kel- books) and Susan Denaker ( Beka Books ).
The number of Dhana, The Immortals, was also produced in full by Full Cast Audio, but almost resembling a radio play with multiple speakers. Nevertheless, the narrative texts have been retained.
Many of the Emelan books were made into audio books. Here so far only Full Cast Audio was working. As The Immortals were produced as audio books, with several speakers The Circle of Magic, The Will of the Empress and Melting Stones. Melting Stones (23 October 2007) even has the particularity that it was originally written for the audiobook version and the speaker therefore particularly well suited to their roles. From The Circle Opens quartet has so far been only a band, namely Street Magic as an audio book - also from Full Cast Audio - implemented. Magic Steps, the first volume of the series is currently in planning, release date is not yet known.
German
So far, only the book series by Alanna was produced as a German audiobook. The publisher has Audiolino thereby released all four volumes as four CDs, the template was correspondingly reduced.
- The black town ( 01.2007 )
- The Curse of the Goddess ( 05.2007 )
- The Broken Sword ( 12.2007 )
- The jewel of power ( 04.2008 )
Works ( content )
Books in Tortall
These books are set in the fictional country Tortall and its surroundings.