Difference between revisions of "Carol Emshwiller"
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* 2005 — [[World Fantasy Award]] for Lifetime Achievement, [[Nebula Award]] for Best Short Story | * 2005 — [[World Fantasy Award]] for Lifetime Achievement, [[Nebula Award]] for Best Short Story | ||
* 2007 — ''[[Infinity X Two|Emshwiller: Infinity x Two: The Life & Art of Ed & Carol Emshwiller]]'' biography published, [[World Fantasy Convention 2007]] | * 2007 — ''[[Infinity X Two|Emshwiller: Infinity x Two: The Life & Art of Ed & Carol Emshwiller]]'' biography published, [[World Fantasy Convention 2007]] | ||
| − | * 2019 — An appreciation of her and her work by [[Jon D. Swartz]] published in [[Scientifiction: The First Fandom Report]] (New Series #59 | + | * 2019 — An appreciation of her and her work by [[Jon D. Swartz]] published in [[Scientifiction: The First Fandom Report]] (New Series #59) |
Revision as of 20:06, 11 August 2020
(April 12, 1921 – February 2, 2019)
Carol Emshwiller (née Agnes Carolyn Fries) was an American writer of avant garde short stories and SF who won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award to the Philip K. Dick Award. Ursula K. Le Guin called her "a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction."
Her stories began appearing in prozines in 1954. Among her novels were Carmen Dog and The Mount. She also wrote two cowboy novels called Ledoyt and Leaping Man Hill. Her most recent novel, The Secret City, was published in April 2007.
She married artist and experimental filmmaker Ed Emshwiller in 1949. They attended the first Milford Conference in 1956.
Awards, Honors and GoHships:
- 1985 — Kubla the 13th
- 1991 — World Fantasy Award for Best Collection
- 1999 — Raymond Z. Gallun Award
- 2002 — Philip K. Dick Award
- 2003 — WisCon 27, Nebula Award for Best Short Story
- 2005 — World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, Nebula Award for Best Short Story
- 2007 — Emshwiller: Infinity x Two: The Life & Art of Ed & Carol Emshwiller biography published, World Fantasy Convention 2007
- 2019 — An appreciation of her and her work by Jon D. Swartz published in Scientifiction: The First Fandom Report (New Series #59)
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