Mimi Mondal Explained

Mimi Mondal
Birth Name:Monidipa Mondal
Birth Place:Kolkata, India
Citizenship:Indian

Monidipa "Mimi" Mondal is an Indian speculative fiction writer based in New York.[1] She writes in many genres, including science fiction. Mondal is the co-editor of Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler, an anthology of letters and essays, which received a Locus Award in 2018.[2] It has been nominated for a 2018 Hugo Award,[3] [4] and the William Atheling Jr. Award.[5] Mondal is the first writer from India to have been nominated for the Hugo Award.[4]

Early life

Mondal was born and raised in Kolkata, where her father worked as a West Bengal Civil Services (WBCS) officer and her mother worked at the State Bank of India. Mondal was given the nickname "Mimi" at birth, "like Bengali children usually are," she says in a roundtable interview.[6] From 2015 onwards she has primarily published as "Mimi Mondal" rather than "Monidipa Mondal".[7]

Mondal states in an online essay that her two first languages were Bengali and English. She later learned Hindi, Old English, and small amounts of several other languages.[8]

Education

Mondal attended Nava Nalanda High School, Calcutta International School, and Jadavpur University,[9] receiving a B.A. in English in 2010 and an M.A. in English in 2012.[10] She received the 2013 Commonwealth Shared Scholarship in Publishing Studies and attended the University of Stirling, Scotland,[8] [1] [11] from which she received a Master of Letters (MLitt) in Publishing Studies in 2015.[12]

In 2015, Mondal attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop in Seattle, US, where she was the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholar.[1] In 2017, she completed her MFA in creative writing from Rutgers University.[13]

Career

Mondal worked as an editor at Penguin India between 2012 and 2013, and as the poetry and reprint editor of Uncanny Magazine between 2017 and 2018.[14] Her work has appeared in such venues as Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine, Fireside Magazine, The Book Smugglers, Daily Science Fiction, Kindle Magazine, Muse India, Podcastle, and Scroll. Mondal is also a history and publishing scholar with a special interest in South Asian speculative fiction, and wrote a two-part history of South Asian speculative fiction for Tor.com in 2018.[15] [16]

Luminescent Threads

Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler is a collection of works by more than 40 writers, issued in honor of the 70th anniversary of Octavia E. Butler's birth.[4] It is Mondal's first book-length work.[17] The anthology was co-edited by Mondal and Alexandra Pierce.[4] It consists of memoirs written as if addressed to Butler personally, mixed with more scholarly essays.[4] The title is derived from Butler's novel Patternmaster.[18]

Luminescent Threads was nominated for the 2018 Hugo Award in the category of Best Related Work,[17] and received the Locus Award for Best Non-fiction on 22 June 2018.[19] It was nominated for a British Fantasy Award.[20] It was also nominated for a 2018 William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review, an Australian Science Fiction Award, being eligible for its Australian editor Pierce and Australian publisher Twelfth Planet Press.[5]

Game design

Mondal wrote the Dungeons & Dragons adventure "In the Mists of Manivarsha" in the 2022 anthology Journeys through the Radiant Citadel.[21] [22] Mondal and the other writers on Journeys through the Radiant Citadel were nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing in March 2023.[23] [24]

In 2022, Mondal joined Asmadi Games as a game writer.[25]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryWorkResult
2018Locus AwardNon-fictionLuminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler
Hugo AwardBest Related Work
William Atheling Jr. AwardCriticism or Review
British Fantasy AwardBest Non-Fiction[26]
2019Nebula AwardBest Novelette"His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light"[27]
2022A.C. Bose Grant for South Asian Speculative Literature"Twenty-Nine Days Before Remaking the World"[28]
2023Nebula AwardBest Game WritingJourneys through the Radiant Citadel

Bibliography

Short fiction

The Other People series (published anachronistically)

Other stories

Anthology

Essays

Notes and References

  1. News: Meet Mimi Mondal: India’s First SFF Writer Nominated For A Hugo . Feminism India . 9 May 2018 . Pallavi . Varma . 15 May 2018.
  2. News: 2018 Locus Awards Winners. Locus Online. 2018-09-08. en-US.
  3. Web site: To the stars and beyond: A conversation with Hugo Award nominee Mimi Mondal. 8 April 2018 . Jessica . Xalxo . She the People TV . 11 May 2018.
  4. News: Sharma . Swati . 22 April 2018 . Hugo Nomination for Indian Writer . Deccan Chronicle . dead . 11 May 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180422025138/https://www.deccanchronicle.com/sunday-chronicle/shelf-life/220418/hugo-nomination-for-indian-writer.html . 22 April 2018.
  5. News: 2018 Ditmar Award Winners . Locus . 2 April 2018 . 15 May 2018.
  6. Web site: Women of Color in Speculative Fiction: A Round Table Discussion . Mithila Review . Isha . Karki . 11 April 2018. 15 May 2018.
  7. Web site: Summary Bibliography: Mimi Mondal . Internet Science Fiction Database . 26 July 2018.
  8. Web site: On Translating the Stories Yet Unwritten: A Dalit Perspective from India . Words Without Borders . Mimi . Mondal. 28 October 2017.
  9. News: Kolkata girl nominated for global sci-fi award . 26 July 2018 . The Times of India . 6 April 2018.
  10. Web site: Curriculum Vitae . Monidipa . Mondal . 11 May 2018 .
  11. Web site: MLitt in Publishing Studies . University of Stirling . 26 July 2018.
  12. Web site: Mimi Mondal. Uncanny. 12 May 2018.
  13. Web site: Alumna Mimi Mondal is a Finalist for the Hugo Award. Rutgers University . 26 July 2018. 8 May 2018.
  14. News: Uncanny Staff Changes . Locus . 27 June 2017 . 15 May 2018.
  15. News: A Short History of South Asian Speculative Fiction: Part I . Tor.com . 30 January 2018 . Mimi . Mondal . 15 May 2018.
  16. News: A Short History of South Asian Speculative Fiction: Part II . Tor.com . 26 February 2018 . Mimi . Mondal . 15 May 2018.
  17. Web site: Lawyer Gautam Bhatia, writer Mimi Mondal nominated for 2018 Hugo Award . Scroll . 11 May 2018. 1 April 2018.
  18. Web site: Wolfe. Gary K. . . Gary K. Wolfe Reviews Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler edited by Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal . 12 May 2018. 14 January 2018.
  19. News: 2018 Locus Awards Winners. Locus Online. 2018-09-08. en-US.
  20. News: British Fantasy Society, British Fantasy Awards 2018. 2018-07-06. The British Fantasy Society. 2018-09-08. en-US.
  21. Web site: Chapman . Matt . Writer Interview: In the Mists of Manivarsha by Mimi Mondal . April 2, 2023 . Dungeons & Dragons.
  22. Web site: Lopez . Rachel . 2022-07-21 . In pics: Ancient Bengal shines in a new Dungeons & Dragons adventure . 2023-04-02 . Hindustan Times . en.
  23. Web site: Farrell . Rebecca Gomez . March 7, 2023 . SFWA Names the 58th Nebula Award Finalists . March 8, 2023 . . en-US . Press release.
  24. Web site: Templeton . Molly . 2023-03-08 . Here Are the 2022 Nebula Award Finalists! . 2023-04-02 . Tor.com . en-US.
  25. Web site: September 28, 2022 . That New Spaceship Smell . 2023-04-02 . Project Updates for 1001 Odysseys . BackerKit . en . Our writing crew grew this summer, please welcome Mimi Mondal.
  26. Web site: 2018-10-22 . Announcing the 2018 British Fantasy Award Winners . 2023-04-02 . Tor.com . en-US.
  27. Web site: Mimi Mondal - Past Nominations and Wins . 2023-04-02 . The Nebula Awards . en-US.
  28. Web site: 2022-04-11 . Mondal Wins A.C. Bose Grant . 2023-04-02 . Locus Online . en-US.
  29. Web site: Mimi Mondal to be Published in Tor.com! . Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers . 25 July 2018. 1 March 2018.
  30. Web site: Mondal . Mimi . From "Other People" . Words Without Borders . 25 July 2018.
  31. Web site: Mondal . Mimi . PodCastle 349: This Sullied Earth, Our Home . The Fantasy Fiction Podcast . 25 July 2018. 3 February 2015.
  32. Web site: Mondal . Mimi . The Trees of My Youth Grew Tall . Strange Horizons . 25 July 2018.
  33. Web site: Writings . Mimi Mondal . 26 July 2018.
  34. Web site: Mondal . Mimi . So It Was Foretold . Fireside Magazine . 25 July 2018.
  35. Web site: Mondal . Mimi . Learning to Swim . Anathema: Spec from the Margins . 25 July 2018.
  36. Web site: Mondal . Mimi . And the Final Frontier is Heaven . Kindle . 25 July 2018.
  37. Web site: Mondal . Mimi . Things to Do after They're Gone . Daily Science Fiction . 25 July 2018.
  38. News: Xalxo . Jessica . Mimi Mondal Hugo Award nominee on queer writing, the marginalised and this nomination . 25 July 2018 . 9 April 2018.
  39. Web site: Yalamanchili . Pavani . South Asian Authors Nominated For Science-Fiction & Fantasy Writing Awards . The Aerogramme . 25 July 2018. 18 March 2018.
  40. Web site: Akbar . Prayaag . Mehta . Tashan . Bhatia . Gautam . Remaking the Difference: A Discussion about Indian Speculative Fiction . Strange Horizons . 25 July 2018. 30 April 2018.
  41. Web site: Mondal . Mimi . Missive from a Woman in a Room in a City in a Country in a World Not Her Own . Uncanny . 25 July 2018.
  42. Web site: Mondal . Mimi. Characters Are Not A Coloring Book Or, Why the Black Hermione is a Poor Apology for the Ingrained Racism of Harry Potter . The Book Smugglers . 25 July 2018. 20 December 2016.

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