Tag: Novelist
For the novelist Anaïd Demir, “to project yourself, you need a return to the past”
Motherhouse, Anaïd Demir’s first novel is a return to family and cultural sources. After 20 years of hectic life in Paris as an art critic and exhibition curator, the budding…
At the crossroads of the worlds, with the first-time novelist Walid Hajar Rachedi
Franco-Algerian, Walid Hajar Rachedi delivers, with What am I going to do in paradise? a promising first novel. Half-autofiction, half “road-novel”, this book tells the initiatory quest of its central…
Turkish novelist Elif Shafak, digging up memories and replanting trees
Elif Shafak is the author of twelve critically acclaimed novels, including ‘The Sultan’s Architect’, ‘The Bastard of Istanbul’, ‘Three Daughters of Eve’, and ’10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This…
Biography | Alfred Elton Van Vogt – Novelist
Alfred Elton Van Vogt is considered one of the leading figures of the golden age (1920-1995) of American science fiction, with landmark works such as In Pursuit of the Slans,…
Biography | Becky Chambers – Novelist
Young, she began by writing fan-fiction on Sailor Moon. Then later, she studied performing arts. Becky Chambers worked as a director of theater companies, then as a technical writer or…
Biography | Robert Heinlein – Novelist
Robert Anson Heinlein is sometimes referred to as the “dean of science fiction writers”. Sometimes controversial, his works still influence modern science fiction today. Among his most famous works are…
Biography | Margaret Atwood – Novelist, poet, literary critic, teacher
Daughter of Carl Edmund Atwood, entomologist, and Margaret Dorothy Killiam, former nutritionist, Margaret Eleanor “Peggy” Atwood was born at the end of 1939 in the city of Ontario, Canada. This…
Biography | Christopher Ruocchio – Novelist
Christopher Ruocchio is the author of The Sun Eater, a fantasy space opera series, and associate editor of Baen Books. Graduated from North Carolina State University with a BA in…
Biography | Pierre Bordage – Novelist
Pierre Bordage is a French science fiction author. His space opera trilogy The Warriors of silence, as well as the wang cycle are considered pillars of the science fiction French…