Nalo Hopkinson

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1960 –

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Who is Nalo Hopkinson?

Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican science fiction and fantasy writer and editor who lives in Canada. Her novels and short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling.

Hopkinson has edited two fiction anthologies. She was the co-editor with Uppinder Mehan for the anthology So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future, and with Geoff Ryman for Tesseracts 9.

Hopkinson defended George Elliott Clarke's novel Whylah Falls on the CBC's Canada Reads 2002. She was the curator of Six Impossible Things, an audio series of Canadian fantastical fiction on CBC Radio One.

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Born
Dec 20, 1960
Kingston
Ethnicity
  • African American
Nationality
  • Jamaica
  • Canada
Profession
Education
  • Seton Hill University

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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