Catherynne M. Valente facts for kids
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Catherynne M. Valente
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Born | Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
May 5, 1979
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | UC San Diego University of Edinburgh |
Genre | Postmodern, fantasy, mythpunk |
Notable awards | James Tiptree Jr. Award (2006), storySouth Million Writers Award (2007), Rhysling Award (2007), Mythopoeic Award (2008), Andre Norton Award (2009), Locus Award (2014) |
Catherynne M. Valente (born May 5, 1979) is an American fiction writer, poet, and literary critic. For her speculative fiction novels she has won the annual James Tiptree, Andre Norton, and Mythopoeic Fantasy awards. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, the World Fantasy Award–winning anthologies Salon Fantastique and Paper Cities, along with numerous "Year's Best" volumes. Her critical work has appeared in the International Journal of the Humanities as well as in numerous essay collections.
Career
Catherynne M. Valente's novels have been nominated for Hugo, World Fantasy, and Locus awards. Her 2009 book Palimpsest won the Lambda Award for LGBT Science Fiction or Fantasy. Her two-volume series The Orphan's Tales won the 2008 Mythopoeic Award, and its first volume, The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden, won the 2006 James Tiptree Jr. Award and was nominated for the 2007 World Fantasy Award. In 2012, Valente's work won three Locus Awards: Best Novelette (White Lines on a Green Field), Best Novella (Silently and Very Fast) and Best YA Novel (The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making).
In 2011, her children's novel The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making debuted at #8 on the New York Times Best Seller List. Its sequel, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, featured at #5 on Time's Best Fiction of 2012 list.
In 2009, she donated her archive to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Collection in the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.
She is a regular panelist on the podcast SF Squeecast.
Multimedia and mythpunk
Valente tours regularly both in America and abroad. She occasionally performs with singer/songwriter S. J. Tucker, who along with her own varied discography composes albums based on Valente's work. The pair perform reading concerts throughout North America, often featuring dancers, aerial artists, art auctions featuring jewelry and paintings based on the novels, and other performances.
Valente is active in the crowdfunding movement of online artists, and her novel The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making was the first online, crowdfunded book to win a major literary award before traditional publication.
In a 2006 blog post, Valente coined the term mythpunk as a joke for describing her own and other works of challenging folklore-based fantasy. Valente and other critics and writers have discussed mythpunk as a subgenre of mythic fiction that starts in folklore and myth and adds elements of postmodernist literary techniques.
Awards
Year | Award | Work (if applicable) |
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2006 | James Tiptree Jr. Award | The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (vol. 1) |
2007 | storySouth Million Writers Award | Urchins, While Swimming, Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 3 |
2007 | World Fantasy Award Nominee (Best Novel) | The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (vol. 1) |
2008 | Rhysling Award (long poem category) | The Seven Devils of Central California, Farrago's Wainscot Summer 2007 |
2008 | Mythopoeic Award (adult literature) | The Orphan's Tales (series) |
2009 | World Fantasy Award Nominee (nominee, Best Short Story) | A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica, Clarkesworld Magazine May 2008 |
2009 | Andre Norton Award | The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making |
2010 | CultureGeek Readers' Choice Award (Best Web Fiction of the 21st Century) | The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making |
2010 | Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) | Palimpsest |
2010 | Locus Awards (nominee) | Palimpsest |
2010 | Lambda Literary Awards | Palimpsest |
2012 | Hugo Award for Best Fancast | SF Squeecast (with Lynne M. Thomas, Seanan McGuire, Paul Cornell, and Elizabeth Bear) |
2012 | Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) | "Fade to White" |
2012 | Time Top 10 Fiction Books | The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There |
2012 | Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book | The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making |
2012 | Locus Award for Best Novella | "Silently and Very Fast" |
2014 | Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book | The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two |
2016 | Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction | "The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild" |
2017 | Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There |
2017 | Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award | The Future Is Blue |
2019 | Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) | Space Opera |
2022 | Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) | The Past is Red |
2022 | Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) | “L'Esprit de L'Escalier” |
2022 | Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) | "The Sin of America" |
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