Catherynne M. Valente Explained

Catherynne M. Valente
Birth Date:5 May 1979
Birth Place:Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Alma Mater:UC San Diego
University of Edinburgh
Genre:Postmodern, fantasy, mythpunk
Awards:James Tiptree Jr. (2006)
Million Writers Award (2007)
Rhysling Award (2007)
Mythopoeic Award (2008)
Andre Norton Award (2009)
Locus Award (2014)

Catherynne Morgan Valente[1] (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, Jr. Award, Andre Norton Award, and Mythopoeic Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, the anthologies Salon Fantastique and Paper Cities, and numerous "Year's Best" volumes. Her critical work has appeared in the International Journal of the Humanities as well as other essay collections.

Career

Valente's 2009 book Palimpsest won the Lambda Award for LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror. 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 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 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.[2]

She is a regular panelist on the podcast SF Squeecast.[3]

Multimedia and mythpunk

Valente tours with singer/songwriter S. J. Tucker, who has composed albums based on Valente's work. The pair perform reading concerts featuring dancers, aerial artists, art auctions featuring jewelry and paintings based on the novels, and other performances.[4]

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.[5] [6] [7]

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.[8] 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.[9]

Selected works

Novels

Novellas

The Orphan's Tales

See main article: The Orphan's Tales.

A Dirge for Prester JohnPublished by Night Shade Books:
Fairyland

Published by Feiwel & Friends:

Fiction collections

Poetry collections

Short fiction

Nonfiction

Anthologies edited

Awards

Year Work (if applicable)Award Ref
2006 The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (vol. 1)[16]
2007 World Fantasy Award Nominee (Best Novel) [17]
"Urchins, While SwimmingstorySouth Million Writers Award[18]
2008 "The Seven Devils of Central California"Rhysling Award (long poem category)
The Orphan's Tales (series)Mythopoeic Award (adult literature) [19]
2009 "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica" World Fantasy Award Nominee (nominee, Best Short Story) [20]
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland[21]
2010 CultureGeek Readers' Choice Award (Best Web Fiction of the 21st Century) [22]
PalimpsestHugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) [23]
Locus Award (nominee)
Lambda Literary Award
2012 SF Squeecast (with Lynne M. Thomas, Seanan McGuire, Paul Cornell, and Elizabeth Bear)Hugo Award for Best Fancast [24]
"Fade to White"Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee)[25]
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland[26] Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book
"Silently and Very Fast"Locus Award for Best Novella
2014The Girl Who Soared Over FairylandLocus Award for Best Young Adult Book[27]
2016"The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild"Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction[28]
2017The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels ThereGrand Prix de l'Imaginaire[29]
The Future Is BlueTheodore Sturgeon Award[30]
2019Space OperaHugo Award for Best Novel (nominee)
2022The Past Is RedHugo Award for Best Novella (nominee)[31]
2022"L'Esprit de L'Escalier"Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee)
2022"The Sin of America" Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee)

External links

Notes and References

  1. 3 February 2013 . Catherynne M. Valente: Weird Hybrids . https://web.archive.org/web/20171109111129/https://locusmag.com/2013/02/catherynne-m-valente-weird-hybrids/ . 9 November 2017 . . 69 . 2 / 625.
  2. Web site: Thomas. Lynne M.. Hugos, Catherynne Valente Archives, and CLIR Reports. Confessions of a Curator. March 20, 2009. 2009-03-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20121113151009/http://niurarebooks.blogspot.com/2009/03/hugos-catherynne-valente-archives-and.html. 2012-11-13.
  3. Web site: List of regular contributors. March 1, 2016. SF Squeecast blog. August 19, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180819124014/http://sfsqueecast.com/about/. dead.
  4. Web site: Two Artists, Many Stripes, One Voice: An Interview With S.j. Tucker & Catherynne M. Valente. March 31, 2011. April 6, 2015. The Interstitial Arts Foundation . https://web.archive.org/web/20160330211508/http://www.interstitialarts.org/artists-creators/two-artists-many-stripes-one-voice-an-interview-with-s-j-tucker-catherynne-m-valente . March 30, 2016 . usurped.
  5. Web site: 2010 Nebula Awards . 2010 . April 6, 2015 . The Locus Index to SF Awards . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110605232126/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Nebula2010.html . June 5, 2011 .
  6. Web site: Nebula Awards Results. https://web.archive.org/web/20100525110902/http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=3274. dead. May 25, 2010. May 15, 2010. April 6, 2015. Science Fiction Awards Watch.
  7. Web site: The Big Idea: Catherynne M. Valente. May 12, 2011. April 6, 2015. Whatever: All Cake and Hand Grenades.
  8. Web site: A Rose in Twelve Names . Rules for Anchorites . 2006-03-28 . 2015-10-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150506080931/http://catvalente.livejournal.com/263738.html . May 6, 2015 . mdy-all .
  9. Web site: Vanderhooft . JoSelle . 2011-01-24 . Mythpunk: An Interview with Catherynne M. Valente . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150219224634/http://www.strangehorizons.com/2011/20110124/mythpunk1-a.shtml . 2015-02-19 . 2015-02-19.
  10. Book: The Glass Town Game . . en.
  11. Web site: The Glass Town Game by Catherynne M Valente . 2023-05-03 . Publishers Weekly.
  12. Book: Glass Town Game by Catherynne M. Valente . Booklist Online.
  13. Web site: Announcing Speak Easy, a New Novella by Catherynne M. Valente. January 4, 2015. April 6, 2015. Subterranean Press. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150411161825/https://subterraneanpress.com/news/announcing_speak_easy_a_new_novella_by_catherynne_m._valente. April 11, 2015. mdy-all.
  14. Web site: The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland – For a Little While by Catherynne M. Valente . . July 27, 2011 . February 2, 2013 . Valente, Catherynne M..
  15. Web site: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making – About This Book. 2009-06-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20120301011943/http://www.catherynnemvalente.com/fairyland/about. 2012-03-01. Valente. Catherynne M..
  16. Web site: 2006 Winners . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150929114112/http://tiptree.org/award/2006-winners . September 29, 2015 . 2015-10-20 . tiptree.org.
  17. Web site: World Fantasy Convention . 2010 . Award Winners and Nominees . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101201074405/http://worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html . December 1, 2010 . February 4, 2011 . mdy.
  18. Web site: storySouth Million Writers Award . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130322063110/http://www.storysouth.com/millionwriters/millionwriters2007.html . March 22, 2013 . 2015-10-20 . www.storysouth.com.
  19. Web site: Mythopoeic Awards - 2008 - Mythopoeic Society . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151006193801/http://www.mythsoc.org/awards/awards-2008/ . October 6, 2015 . 2015-10-20 . Mythopoeic Society . en.
  20. Web site: World Fantasy Awards -- Complete Listing . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131015020014/http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html . October 15, 2013 . 2015-10-20 . www.worldfantasy.org . mdy.
  21. Web site: sfadb: Andre Norton Award 2010 . 2015-10-20 . www.sfadb.com.
  22. Web site: December 20, 2010 . Nebula Awards Interview: Catherynne M. Valente - SFWA . 2015-10-20 . SFWA . en.
  23. Web site: sfadb : Catherynne M. Valente Awards . 2015-10-20 . www.sfadb.com.
  24. http://www.thehugoawards.org/2012/09/2012-hugo-award-winners/ The Hugo Awards: 2012 Hugo Award Winners
  25. Web site: May 18, 2013 . Congratulations to the 2012 Nebula Award Winners . April 6, 2015 . Tor.com.
  26. Web site: 2012 Locus Award Winners. June 16, 2012. April 6, 2015. Locus Online News. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121021204202/http://www.locusmag.com/News/2012/06/locus-awards-2012-winners/. October 21, 2012. mdy-all.
  27. Web site: Locus Young Adult Award . April 6, 2015 . Worlds without End.
  28. Web site: September 6, 2016 . Valente Wins Eugie Award . February 19, 2019 . Locus.
  29. Web site: Locus Young Adult Award . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180108144215/http://gpi.noosfere.org/2017.php . January 8, 2018 . April 6, 2015 . Worlds without End.
  30. Web site: 2017 Campbell and Sturgeon Award Winners . June 6, 2017 . Solaris.
  31. Web site: 2022-04-07 . 2022 Hugo Awards . 2022-09-05 . The Hugo Awards . en-US.

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