Nalo Hopkinson

Nalo Hopkinson è un'autrice molto apprezzata, nota principalmente per il suo lavoro nel genere della narrativa speculativa. È nata a Jamaica il 20 dicembre 1960 e ha trascorso l'infanzia in vari paesi caraibici, tra cui Trinidad e Guyana, prima di trasferirsi con la famiglia a Toronto, in Canada, nel 1977. Le sue esperienze culturali diverse hanno influenzato notevolmente la sua scrittura, che spesso attinge alla storia, alla lingua e alle tradizioni narrative caraibiche.

Hopkinson è autrice di diversi romanzi, tra cui "Brown Girl in the Ring", "Midnight Robber", "The Salt Roads" e "The New Moon's Arms", nonché di numerose short stories. Il suo lavoro è stato elogiato per la sua immaginazione e l'approccio innovativo alla narrazione, nonché per l'esplorazione di temi come razza, genere e sessualità.

Oltre al suo lavoro come scrittrice, Hopkinson è anche una editor e insegnante di successo. Ha insegnato scrittura creativa e letteratura in diverse università, tra cui l'University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) e l'University of Toronto. Ha inoltre editato diverse antologie, tra cui "Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction" e "Mojo: Conjure Stories".

Nel corso della sua carriera, Hopkinson ha ricevuto numerosi premi e riconoscimenti per il suo lavoro. È vincitrice del Warner Aspect First Novel award, del Sunburst Award per la letteratura canadese di genere fantastico, del World Fantasy Award e del Gaylactic Spectrum Award. Il suo lavoro ha anche ricevuto una menzione d'onore al Casa de las Americas Prize per la letteratura a Cuba. Nonostante questi riconoscimenti, Hopkinson rimane una scrittrice umile e dedicata, impegnata ad esplorare le vaste possibilità della narrativa speculativa e a spingere i confini del genere.
Collezioni
# Titolo Anno
1 Under Glass Under Glass 2001
2 Skin Folk 2001
3 Falling in Love with Hominids 2015
4 Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions 2024
Libri di non-fiction
# Titolo Anno
1 Report from Planet Midnight (With: Eleanor Arnason) 2012
2 Report from Planet Midnight 2012
Racconti brevi/Novelle
# Titolo Anno
1 Something to Hitch Meat To 2001
Romanzi singoli
# Titolo Anno
1 Brown Girl in the Ring 1998
2 Midnight Robber 2000
3 The Salt Roads 2004
4 The New Moon's Arms 2007
5 Blackheart Man 2010
6 The Chaos 2012
7 Sister Mine 2013
Black Stars Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Visit 2021
2 The Visit (By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) 2021
3 These Alien Skies (By: C.T. Rwizi) 2021
4 These Alien Skies 2021
5 We Travel the Spaceways ( By: Victor LaValle) 2021
6 We Travel the Spaceways 2021
7 2043...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be) 2021
8 2043...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be) (By: Nisi Shawl) 2021
9 The Black Pages (By: Nnedi Okorafor) 2021
10 The Black Pages 2021
11 Clap Back 2021
Heiresses of Russ Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Heiresses of Russ 2012 2012
2 Heiresses of Russ 2013 (By: Carrie Vaughn, Lee Mandelo, Nisi Shawl, Richard Bowes, Megan Arkenberg, Wendy N. Wagner, Steve Berman, Malinda Lo, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Tenea D. Johnson, J.L. Merrow, Jewelle Gómez) 2013
3 Heiresses of Russ 2014 (By: Alex Jeffers, Steve Berman, Melissa Scott, Redfern Jon Barrett, Chanté McCoy, Alberto Yáñez, Penny Stirling, Sacchi Green, Lexy Wealleans, Robert E. Stutts) 2014
4 Heiresses of Russ 2015 (By: Seanan McGuire, Shannon Connor Winward, Ken Liu, Steve Berman, Susan Jane Bigelow, M. Bennardo, Darcie Little Badger, Vivien Jackson, Ruthanna Emrys, Jean Roberta, Melissa Moorer, Stacia Seaman) 2015
House of Whispers Books (with Max Fiumara, with Bilquis Evely, with Kat Howard, with Aneke, with Sebastian Fiumara, with Simon Spurrier, with Matthew Dow Smith, with Amancay Nahuelpan, with Dan Watters, with Dominike Stanton, with Isaac Goodhart, with Dominke Stanton, with Nelson Blake, with Tom Fowler, with Dominike "Domo" Stanton)
# Titolo Anno
1 The House of Whispers Vol. 1 (With: Max Fiumara, Bilquis Evely, Kat Howard, Aneke, Sebastian Fiumara, Simon Spurrier, Dan Watters, Dominike Stanton, Tom Fowler) 2019
2 The House of Whispers Vol. 2 (With: Amancay Nahuelpan, Dan Watters, Isaac Goodhart, Dominke Stanton, Nelson Blake) 2020
3 House of Whispers Vol. 3 (With: Matthew Dow Smith, Dan Watters, Dominike "Domo" Stanton) 2020
Outspoken Authors Books
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1 The Human Front 2001
2 The Human Front (By: Ken MacLeod) 2001
3 The Left Left Behind 2009
4 The Left Left Behind (By: Terry Bisson, Eleanor Arnason) 2009
5 Lucky Strike 2009
6 Lucky Strike (By: Kim Stanley Robinson) 2009
7 The Underbelly 2010
8 The Underbelly (By: Gary Phillips, Eleanor Arnason) 2010
9 Mammoths of the Great Plains 2010
10 Mammoths of the Great Plains (By: Eleanor Arnason) 2010
11 The Wild Girls (By: Ursula K. Le Guin, Eleanor Arnason) 2011
12 The Wild Girls 2011
13 Modem Times 2.0 (By: Michael Moorcock, Eleanor Arnason) 2011
14 Modem Times 2.0 2011
15 The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow 2011
16 The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (By: Cory Doctorow, Eleanor Arnason) 2011
17 Surfing the Gnarl 2012
18 Report from Planet Midnight (With: Eleanor Arnason) 2012
19 The Science of Herself (By: Karen Joy Fowler, Eleanor Arnason) 2013
20 Report from Planet Midnight 2012
21 Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (By: Eleanor Arnason, Paul Krassner) 2013
22 The Science of Herself 2013
23 New Taboos (By: John Shirley) 2013
24 Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials 2013
25 New Taboos 2013
26 Raising Hell (By: Norman Spinrad, Eleanor Arnason) 2014
27 My Life, My Body (By: Marge Piercy) 2015
28 Raising Hell 2014
29 Gypsy (By: Carter Scholz, Eleanor Arnason) 2015
30 My Life, My Body 2015
31 Gypsy 2015
32 Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be (By: Joe R. Lansdale, Eleanor Arnason) 2016
33 Fire. (By: Elizabeth Hand, Eleanor Arnason) 2017
34 Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be 2016
35 Totalitopia (By: John Crowley) 2017
36 Fire. 2017
37 Totalitopia 2017
38 The Atheist in the Attic (By: Samuel R. Delany, Eleanor Arnason) 2018
39 Thoreau's Microscope (By: Michael Blumlein, Eleanor Arnason) 2018
40 The Atheist in the Attic 2018
41 Thoreau's Microscope 2018
42 The Beatrix Gates (By: Rachel Pollack) 2019
43 The Beatrix Gates 2019
44 A City Made of Words (By: Paul Park) 2019
45 Not What I Intended (By: Nancy Kress) 2025
46 A City Made of Words 2019
Year's Best Fantasy Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Year's Best Fantasy 2001
2 Year's Best Fantasy 2 2002
3 Year's Best Fantasy 3 2003
4 Year's Best Fantasy 4 2004
5 Year's Best Fantasy 5 2005
6 Year's Best Fantasy 6 2006
7 Year's Best Fantasy 7 2007
8 Year's Best Fantasy 8 2008
9 Year's Best Fantasy 9 2009
Nalo Hopkinson Anthologies
# Titolo Anno
1 Black Swan, White Raven 1997
2 Silver Birch, Blood Moon 1999
3 A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora 2000
4 Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root 2000
5 Fourteenth Annual Collection 2001
6 Queer Fear II 2002
7 Mojo 2003
8 Reading the Bones 2004
9 Girls Who Bite Back 2004
10 So Long Been Dreaming 2004
11 Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction 2005
12 Lust for Life: Tales of Sex & Love 2006
13 Apex Magazine - February 2011 2011
14 Walking the Clouds 2012
15 After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia 2012
16 Heiresses of Russ 2013 2013
17 The Time Traveler's Almanac 2013
18 Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales 2014
19 Lightspeed Magazine, December 2014 2014
20 Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing 2015
21 Blood Sisters: Vampire Stories By Women 2015
22 Imaginarium 3 2015
23 Blood Sisters 2015
24 Sisters of the Revolution 2015
25 Warrior Women 2015
26 People of Color Destroy Science Fiction! 2016
27 Imaginarium 4 2016
28 The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 11: Trials by Whiteness 2017
29 People of Color Take over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination 2017
30 Shoreline of Infinity 8½: Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition 2017
31 Particulates 2018
32 Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021
33 Current Futures 2019
34 Edited By 2020
35 Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century 2021
36 Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue 2022
37 Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination 2022
38 Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror 2023