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Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson (born 20 December 1960) is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor.
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She lives and teaches in Riverside, California.[1] Her novels (Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon's Arms) and short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk often use Caribbean history and language.
Hopkinson's favorite writers include Samuel R. Delany, Tobias S. Buckell, and Charles Saunders.[1]
Awards
[change | change source]Hopkinson won the 1999 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer[2] and the Ontario Arts Council Foundation Award for Emerging Writers.
Brown Girl in the Ring was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 1998, and received the Locus Award for Best First Novel.
Skin Folk received the World Fantasy Award and the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic in 2003.