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Nalo Hopkinson

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Nalo Hopkinson (born 20 December 1960) is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor. [1]

77 relations: Abdur Rahman Slade Hopkinson, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Jamaican, Alondra Nelson, Anansi, Anemia, Aurora Awards, Boston Review, Brown Girl in the Ring (novel), Canada Reads, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Caribbean, Caribbean folklore, Carl Brandon Society, CBC Radio One, Charles R. Saunders, Christina Rossetti, Clarion West Writers Workshop, Clarion Workshop, Connecticut, Cooking, Creative writing, Creole peoples, Dark Matter (prose anthologies), Derek Walcott, English studies, Falling in Love With Hominids, Fantasy, Feminism, Gardening, Gaylactic Spectrum Awards, Gaylaxicon, Genre fiction, Geoff Ryman, George Elliott Clarke, Goblin Market, Gulliver's Travels, Guyana, Hugo Award for Best Novel, Iliad, Jamaica, James K. Morrow, James Tiptree Jr. Award, John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Kingston, Jamaica, Kurt Vonnegut, Latin, Locus (magazine), Locus Award, Locus Award for Best First Novel, ..., Master of Arts, Midnight Robber, Mojo: Conjure Stories, Nebula Award for Best Novel, Odyssey, Philip K. Dick Award, Riverside, California, Samuel R. Delany, Science fiction, Science fiction convention, Seton Hill University, Sewing, Skin Folk, So Long Been Dreaming, Speculative fiction, Sunburst Award, The Salt Roads, Tobias S. Buckell, Toronto, Trinidad, University of California, Riverside, Uterine fibroid, Vitamin D, Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root, Whylah Falls, Yale University, Young adult fiction. Expand index (27 more) »

Abdur Rahman Slade Hopkinson

Slade Hopkinson (born 1934) was a writer who was born into a middle-class family in New Amsterdam, Guyana.

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Afro-Caribbean

Afro-Caribbean, a term not used by West Indians themselves but first coined by Americans in the late 1960s, describes Caribbean people who trace at least some of their ancestry to West Africa in the period since Christopher Columbus' arrival in the region in 1492.

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Afro-Jamaican

Afro-Jamaicans are Jamaicans who are entirely or of partial African descent.

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Alondra Nelson

Alondra Nelson (born 1968), an American writer and academic, is President of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).

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Anansi

Anansi is an Akan folktale character.

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Anemia

Anemia is a decrease in the total amount of red blood cells (RBCs) or hemoglobin in the blood, or a lowered ability of the blood to carry oxygen.

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Aurora Awards

The Aurora Awards are given out annually for the best Canadian science fiction and fantasy literary works, artworks, fan activities from that year.

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Boston Review

Boston Review is a quarterly American political and literary magazine.

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Brown Girl in the Ring (novel)

Brown Girl in the Ring is a novel written by Jamaican-Canadian writer Nalo Hopkinson.

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Canada Reads

Canada Reads is an annual "battle of the books" competition organized and broadcast by Canada's public broadcaster, the CBC.

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.

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Caribbean folklore

Many elements of Caribbean folklore (the orally transmitted beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people) are African in origin, given that slaves brought from Africa's West (or Gold) Coast made up a large majority of those brought to the region.

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Carl Brandon Society

The Carl Brandon Society is a group originating within the science fiction community "dedicated to addressing the representation of people of color in the fantastical genres such as science fiction, fantasy and horror...

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CBC Radio One

CBC Radio One is the English-language news and information radio network of the publicly owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Charles R. Saunders

Charles R. Saunders also credited as Charles Saunders (born July 12, 1946) is an African-American author and journalist currently living in Canada.

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Christina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems.

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Clarion West Writers Workshop

Clarion West Writers Workshop is an intensive six-week program for writers preparing for professional careers in science fiction and fantasy.

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Clarion Workshop

Clarion is a six-week workshop for aspiring science fiction and fantasy writers.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Cooking

Cooking or cookery is the art, technology, science and craft of preparing food for consumption.

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Creative writing

Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes or with various traditions of poetry and poetics.

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Creole peoples

Creole peoples (and its cognates in other languages such as crioulo, criollo, creolo, créole, kriolu, criol, kreyol, kreol, kriol, krio, kriyoyo, etc.) are ethnic groups which originated from creolisation, linguistic, cultural and racial mixing between colonial-era emigrants from Europe with non-European peoples, climates and cuisines.

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Dark Matter (prose anthologies)

Dark Matter is an anthology series of science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories and essays produced by people of African descent.

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Derek Walcott

Sir Derek Alton Walcott, KCSL, OBE, OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.

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English studies

English studies (usually called simply English) is an academic discipline taught in primary, secondary, and post-secondary education in English-speaking countries; it is not to be confused with English taught as a foreign language, which is a distinct discipline.

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Falling in Love With Hominids

Falling in Love With Hominids is a collection of short stories by Nalo Hopkinson.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.

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Gardening

Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture.

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Gaylactic Spectrum Awards

The Gaylactic Spectrum Awards (1999–present) are given to works of science fiction, fantasy and horror that explore LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) topics in a positive way.

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Gaylaxicon

Gaylaxicon was a recurring science fiction, fantasy and horror convention that focused on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender topics.

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Genre fiction

Genre fiction, also known as popular fiction, is plot-driven fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre, in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with that genre.

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Geoff Ryman

Geoffrey Charles Ryman (born 1951) is a writer of science fiction, fantasy, slipstream and historical fiction.

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George Elliott Clarke

George Elliott Clarke, (born February 12, 1960) is a Canadian poet and playwright and is currently serving as the Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.

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Goblin Market

Goblin Market (composed in April 1859 and published in 1862) is a poem, commonly mistaken as a narrative, by Christina Rossetti.

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Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

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Guyana

Guyana (pronounced or), officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a sovereign state on the northern mainland of South America.

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Hugo Award for Best Novel

The Hugo Award for Best Novel is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in English or translated into English during the previous calendar year.

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Iliad

The Iliad (Ἰλιάς, in Classical Attic; sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.

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James K. Morrow

James Morrow (born March 17, 1947) is an American novelist and short-story writer known for filtering large philosophical and theological questions through his satiric sensibility.

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James Tiptree Jr. Award

The James Tiptree Jr.

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John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer is an award given annually to the best new writer whose first professional work of science fiction or fantasy was published within the two previous calendar years.

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Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island.

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Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (November 11, 1922April 11, 2007) was an American writer.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Locus (magazine)

Locus: The Magazine of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field, is an American magazine published monthly in Oakland, California.

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Locus Award

The Locus Awards are an annual set of literary awards by the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus, a monthly based in Oakland, California, United States.

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Locus Award for Best First Novel

Winners of the Locus Award for Best First Novel, awarded by the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus.

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Master of Arts

A Master of Arts (Magister Artium; abbreviated MA; also Artium Magister, abbreviated AM) is a person who was admitted to a type of master's degree awarded by universities in many countries, and the degree is also named Master of Arts in colloquial speech.

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Midnight Robber

Midnight Robber is a science fiction bildungsroman (coming-of-age novel) by Jamaican-Canadian writer Nalo Hopkinson.

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Mojo: Conjure Stories

Mojo: Conjure Stories is an anthology of fantasy and horror short stories, edited by the writer Nalo Hopkinson and published in 2003.

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Nebula Award for Best Novel

The Nebula Award for Best Novel is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy novels.

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Odyssey

The Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια Odýsseia, in Classical Attic) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.

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Philip K. Dick Award

The Philip K. Dick Award is a science fiction award given annually at Norwescon and sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and (since 2005) the Philip K. Dick Trust.

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Riverside, California

Riverside is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, located in the Inland Empire metropolitan area.

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Samuel R. Delany

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Science fiction convention

Science fiction conventions are gatherings of fans of the speculative fiction genre, science fiction.

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Seton Hill University

Seton Hill University is a Catholic liberal arts university of about 2,500 students in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.

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Sewing

Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with a needle and thread.

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Skin Folk

Skin Folk is a story collection by writer Nalo Hopkinson.

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So Long Been Dreaming

So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy is an anthology of short stories by African, Asian, South Asian, and Indigenous authors, as well as North American and British writers of colour, edited by the writer Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan.

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Speculative fiction

Speculative fiction is an umbrella genre encompassing narrative fiction with supernatural and/or futuristic elements.

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Sunburst Award

The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is an annual award given for a speculative fiction novel or a book-length collection.

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The Salt Roads

The Salt Roads is a novel by Canadian-Jamaican writer Nalo Hopkinson.

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Tobias S. Buckell

Tobias S. Buckell (born 1979) is a Grenadian science fiction writer.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Trinidad

Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago.

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University of California, Riverside

The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside), is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system.

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Uterine fibroid

Uterine fibroids, also known as uterine leiomyomas or fibroids, are benign smooth muscle tumors of the uterus.

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Vitamin D

Vitamin D is a group of fat-soluble secosteroids responsible for increasing intestinal absorption of calcium, magnesium, and phosphate, and multiple other biological effects.

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Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root

Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction is an anthology of speculative fiction by Caribbean authors, edited by Nalo Hopkinson and published by Invisible Cities Press in 2000.

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Whylah Falls

Whylah Falls is a long narrative poem (or "verse novel") by George Elliott Clarke, published in book form in 1990.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Young adult fiction

Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction published for readers in their youth.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalo_Hopkinson

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