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N. K. Jemisin
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N. K. Jemisin is an American novelist, science fiction writer, and therapist. Born Nora Jemisin on September 19, 1972, in Iowa City, she is educated at Tulane University of Louisiana. She writes in English and is recognized in the Macarthur Fellows collection, the Hugo Award Best Novel collection, and the Time 100 collection.
Her notable works include The Broken Kingdoms, The Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 1, The Best of Uncanny, Epic, and The best American science fiction and fantasy 2018. Jemisin has received the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Locus Award for Best First Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. She has also been nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story, the Hugo Award for Best Short Story, the Otherwise Award, and the Nebula Award for Best Novel.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 19 September 1972
- Works
- 35
Top works
- Die Erbin der Welt
- Far Sector
- The Broken Kingdoms
- The Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 1
- The Best of Uncanny
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Key facts
- Born
- Nora Keita Jemisin , ( 1972-09-19 ) September 19, 1972 (age 53) , Iowa City, Iowa , U.S.
- Occupation
- Novelist mental health and career counselor
- Language
- English
- Education
- Tulane University ( BS ), University of Maryland, College Park ( MEd )
- Genre
- Science fiction fantasy
- Notable works
- Broken Earth series Emergency Skin Far Sector
- Notable awards
- MacArthur Fellow Hugo Award
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Iowa City
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Tulane University of Louisiana
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- speculative fiction
- Official website
- nkjemisin.com
- Image
- N. K. Jemisin.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1972-09-19
- Commons category
- N. K. Jemisin
- pseudonym
- N. K. Jemisin
- start of work period
- 2002-00-00
- social media followers
- 204952
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Nora Keita Jemisin (born September 19, 1972) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her fiction includes a wide range of themes, notably cultural conflict and oppression. Her debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010), and the subsequent books in her Inheritance Trilogy received critical acclaim.
Jemisin has won several awards for her work, including multiple Locus Awards, starting with her first novel. Her Broken Earth series made her the first African-American author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel, as well as the first author to win in three consecutive years, and the first to win for all three novels in a trilogy. She won a fourth Hugo in 2020 for the novelette Emergency Skin and a fifth in 2022 for the comic book series Far Sector. Jemisin was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program prize in 2020.
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