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Edition 18 (1989) Winner
Jonathan Carroll
ジョナサン・キャロル
Jonasan Kyaroru
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1949-01-26 （New York City）
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Christian Science
- Residence History
- New York City, United States → Vienna, Austria
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Writer
- Active Years
- 1980-
- Affiliations
- American International School of Vienna
- Nominations
- World Fantasy Award nominee (multiple), British Fantasy Award nominee (multiple), Hugo Award runner-up
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loomis School | — | — | — | 小学校教育 | United States |
| Rutgers University | — | — | — | — | United States |
Loomis School
Period:
小学校教育
Country:
United States
Connecticut
Rutgers University
Year of Graduation:
1971
Country:
United States
Graduated with honors
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | World Fantasy Award | Friend's Best Man | Short Fiction | World Fantasy Convention | winner |
| 1992 | British Fantasy Award | Outside the Dog Museum | — | — | winner |
| 1996 | Bram Stoker Award | The Panic Hand | Fiction Collection | — | winner |
| — | Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | Uh-Oh City | Nouvelles étrangères | — | winner |
World Fantasy Award
1988
Work:
Friend's Best Man
Category:
Short Fiction
Organization:
World Fantasy Convention
Result:
winner
British Fantasy Award
1992
Work:
Outside the Dog Museum
Result:
winner
Bram Stoker Award
1996
Work:
The Panic Hand
Category:
Fiction Collection
Result:
winner
Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
Work:
Uh-Oh City
Category:
Nouvelles étrangères
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Land of Laughs
1980 Magic realismA schoolteacher researches a children's author and encounters talking dogs in a fictional town.
Boundary between reality and fantasyUnreliable narrator
Bones of the Moon
1987 Contemporary fantasyOutside the Dog Museum
1991 SlipstreamWhite Apples
2002 Magic realismBibliography
- The Land of Laughs (1980)
- Voice of Our Shadow (1983)
- Bones of the Moon (1987)
- Sleeping in Flame (1988)
- A Child Across the Sky (1989)
- Outside the Dog Museum (1991)
- After Silence (1992)
- From the Teeth of Angels (1994)
- Kissing the Beehive (1997)
- The Marriage of Sticks (2000)
- The Wooden Sea (2001)
- White Apples (2002)
- Glass Soup (2005)
Translations of Works
- Polish, Italian, German editions etc.
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Magic realismSlipstreamContemporary fantasyFirst-person narrationUnreliable narrators
- Recurring Motifs
- Magic viewed as naturalBlurring of fantasy and reality
Legacy
American fiction writer known for magic realism, slipstream, and contemporary fantasy novels. Has lived in Austria since 1974.
Trivia
- Son Ryder Carroll invented the Bullet Journal.
- Half-brother of composer Steve Reich.
- Parents were film writer Sidney Carroll and actress June Carroll.