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Tade Thompson

テイド・トンプソン

Teido Tonpuson

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1969 （London, United Kingdom）
Nationality
Nigerian, British
Languages
English, Yoruba
Residence History
London, United Kingdom → Nigeria → Samoa → Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Career

Occupations
psychiatrist, writer, illustrator
Active Years
2005-
Affiliations
St James' Hospital, Portsmouth, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL)
Memberships
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL)
Nominations
BSFA Award 2016 Short Fiction "The Apologists" Shortlisted, BSFA Award 2017 Shorter Fiction "The Murders of Molly Southbourne" Shortlisted, Shirley Jackson Award 2017 Novella Nominated, John W. Campbell Memorial Award 2017 Finalist, British Fantasy Award 2018 Novella Shortlisted, BSFA Award 2018 Novel "Rosewater" Shortlisted, BSFA Award 2019 Novel "The Rosewater Insurrection" Shortlisted, BSFA Award 2019 Shorter Fiction "The Survival of Molly Southbourne" Shortlisted, Theodore Sturgeon Award 2019 "Yard Dog" Finalist, Locus Award 2020 Science Fiction Novel "The Rosewater Insurrection" & "The Rosewater Redemption" Finalist, Dragon Award 2020 Science Fiction Novel "The Rosewater Redemption" Nominated, Philip K. Dick Award 2020 Nominated, British Fantasy Award 2020 Novella "The Survival of Molly Southbourne" Shortlisted, Ignyte Award 2020 Novella Finalist, Hugo Award 2020 Series "The Wormwood Trilogy" Finalist, Nommo Award 2022 Novel "Far from the Light of Heaven" Shortlisted, Philip K. Dick Award 2022 Finalist, Philip K. Dick Award 2023 "The Legacy of Molly Southbourne" Special Citation

Awards

Nommo Award
2017
Work: Rosewater
Category: Novel
Organization: Nommo Awards
Result: Won
Arthur C. Clarke Award
2019
Work: Rosewater
Organization: Science Fiction Foundation
Result: Won
Nommo Award
2018
Work: The Murders of Molly Southbourne
Category: Novella
Organization: Nommo Awards
Result: Won
Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
2020
Work: The Murders of Molly Southbourne
Category: Foreign Short Fiction
Result: Won

Awards & Nominations

Philip K. Dick Award 1 appearances
  1. Edition 41 (2023) Special Citation
    Work: The Legacy of Molly Southbourne

    The final chapter in the Molly Southbourne story brings together horror and family emotion with equal force. It is a grim but resonant novella that closes the series with both brutality and aftertaste.

    Every drop of blood carries the next disaster, and this final volume faces that curse head-on.

    152 pages
    horrorduplication and identityfamilytraumaseries finale

Works

Major Works

Rosewater

2016 Science fiction 432 pages

In near-future Nigeria, the alien corpse Wormwood creates the biodome Rosewater, which heals the sick and resurrects the dead, leading to social upheaval.

alien contactbiotechnologypostcolonialismidentity

The Murders of Molly Southbourne

2017 Horror

A girl named Molly Southbourne must kill bloody copies of herself that appear whenever she bleeds.

self-destructionidentityhorror

The Rosewater Insurrection

2019 Science fiction 374 pages

Second book in the Wormwood Trilogy, depicting insurrection in Rosewater.

insurrectionalienspolitics

Far from the Light of Heaven

2021 Science fiction 384 pages

Passengers awaken on a spaceship to find murders aboard.

space travelmysteryAI

Bibliography

  • Rosewater
  • The Rosewater Insurrection
  • The Rosewater Redemption
  • Making Wolf
  • Far from the Light of Heaven
  • The Murders of Molly Southbourne
  • The Survival of Molly Southbourne
  • The Legacy of Molly Southbourne

Style & Themes

Literary Style
highly originalbroad visioninnovative African SF
Recurring Motifs
African futuresalien biologybody horror

Legacy

British-Nigerian writer of Yoruba descent prominent in SF and horror. Won Arthur C. Clarke Award as second black African heritage winner. Elected FRSL in 2023.

Trivia

  • Born in London to Yoruba parents, moved to Nigeria at age 7 and grew up there.
  • Full-time psychiatrist at St James' Hospital, Portsmouth, while writing.
  • Also an illustrator and artist, creating cover art for magazines.