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Nisi Shawl

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Nisi Shōru

プロフィール

性別
non-binary
生誕
1955-01-01 (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
国籍
American
言語
English
居住地歴
Kalamazoo, Michigan → Seattle, Washington

経歴

職業
writer, editor, journalist
活動期間
1989年〜2024年
所属
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), Clarion West (board member), Carl Brandon Society (founder)
所属団体
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
影響を受けた人物
Colette, Monique Wittig, Raymond Chandler, Gwyneth Jones, Suzy McKee Charnas, Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany, Howard Waldrop, Eileen Gunn
ノミネート
Theodore Sturgeon Award, Gaylactic Spectrum Award, World Fantasy Award, Nebula Award, etc.

学歴

Residential College, University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
期間: 1971-
国: United States
Started attending at age 16 in 1971, did not graduate
Clarion West Writers Workshop
学位: Workshop Graduate
期間: 1992
卒業年: 1992
国: United States
Graduated

受賞歴

Otherwise Award
2008
対象作品: Filter House
結果: Winner
Ignyte Award (Best Anthology/Collected Works)
2020
対象作品: New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
結果: Winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Filter House

2008年 Speculative fiction

Debut collection of short stories praised for sense of justice and anti-colonialism.

diversityanti-colonialismjustice

Everfair

2016年 Neo-Victorian steampunk alternate history

Alternate history novel set in Belgian Congo where steam technology reaches natives early, creating a new nation.

colonialismAfrofuturismmulticulturalism

Kinning

2024年 Speculative fiction

Our Fruiting Bodies

2022年 Speculative fiction

全著作

  • Filter House (2008)
  • Everfair (2016)
  • Kinning (2024)
  • Our Fruiting Bodies (2022)
  • New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color (2020, ed.)
  • Writing the Other (2005, with Cynthia Ward)

作風・主題

文体
Moral work through plot and characterNon-didactic storytellingExploration of diversity
頻出モチーフ
Diversity of gender, race, sexual orientationAnti-colonialismReal-world diversity in fantastic fiction

評価・遺産

Pioneering African-American writer and editor promoting diversity, feminism, and multiculturalism in speculative fiction.

資料所蔵先

  • Northern Illinois University Rare Books and Special Collections

大衆文化への影響

  • Guest of Honor at WisCon 35

豆知識

  • Bisexual, increasingly identifies as genderfluid.
  • Freelance book reviewer for The Seattle Times.
  • Member of SFWA.