Naomi Novik Explained

Naomi Novik
Birth Date:30 April 1973
Birth Place:New York, US
Spouse:Charles Ardai
Children:1
Awards:See below

Naomi Novik (born 1973) is an American author of speculative fiction. She is known for the Temeraire series (2006–2016), an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars involving dragons, and her Scholomance fantasy series (2020–2022). Her standalone fantasy novels Uprooted (2015) and Spinning Silver (2018) were inspired by Polish folklore and the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale respectively. Novik has won many awards for her work, including the Alex, Audie, British Fantasy, Locus, Mythopoeic and Nebula Awards.

Early life

Novik grew up in Roslyn Heights on Long Island. She is a second-generation American; her father's family were Lithuanian Jews, and her mother's family were Polish Catholics.[1] Displaying an interest in reading at a young age, she read The Lord of the Rings at age six, and developed a love for Jane Austen soon afterward.

She received a bachelor's degree in English literature at Brown University and holds a master's degree in computer science from Columbia University.[2] She participated in the design and development of the computer game , until she discovered that she preferred writing over game design.[3]

Career

Novik's first novel, His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire in the UK) is the first novel in the Temeraire series, an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars in a "Flintlock Fantasy" world where dragons are abundant and are used in aerial combat. His Majesty's Dragon won the Compton Crook Award in 2007 and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel.[4] Temeraire: In the Service of the King is omnibus volume collecting the first three books of the series (His Majesty's Dragon, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War); it won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 2007.

In September 2006, Peter Jackson optioned the rights to the Temeraire series, intending to produce three or more live-action films, but the rights have since reverted to Novik.[5] [6] [7] The Temeraire series has also been released in audiobook format. The first five audiobooks were released by Books on Tape, beginning in 2007, and read by Simon Vance.[8] The sixth audiobook was released by Tantor Audio in September 2010, also read by Vance.[9]

In September 2007, Novik was awarded the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer for best new science fiction writer of 2006. In 2011, Novik wrote Will Supervillains Be on the Final?, a graphic novel about the next generation of high-flying costumed crusaders. Yishan Li illustrated the comic with manga-styled art.[10]

In 2015, Novik published Uprooted, a standalone novel "set in a fantasy world inspired by the Kingdom of Poland".[11] It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel, the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel, the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Warner Bros. purchased the film rights to Uprooted; Ellen DeGeneres and Jeff Kleeman signed on to produce the film through their production company, A Very Good Production.[12]

In 2016, Novik published "Spinning Silver", a short story retelling the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale, in the fantasy anthology The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales.[13] Two years later, she expanded the story into her second standalone novel, Spinning Silver, which won the 2019 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, the 2019 Alex Award, and the 2019 Audie Award for Fantasy.

In 2020, Novik published A Deadly Education, the first in a trilogy set in the Scholomance, the retelling of folklore about a school of black magic. The main character, Galadriel "El" Higgins, a half-Welsh, half-Indian sorceress, must survive to graduation while controlling her destructive abilities.[14] Universal Pictures purchased the film rights to the Scholomance series in advance, assigning Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman of Mandeville Films to develop and produce the films.[15] Upon its release, A Deadly Education was criticized for a passage where the hairstyle known as dreadlocks is described as susceptible to an infestation of bug-like magical creatures.[16] [17] Novik later apologized for "evok[ing] a racist stereotype" about Afro-textured hair. She revised the passage for future reprints, and promised that the sequel novels will not be sent to reviewers and publishers before "revisions are fully complete and a final sensitivity read has happened."[18]

Activism

Novik helped to organize the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of fan-media including fan fiction, fan videos (vids), and real-person fiction.[19] [20] [21] In 2007 she was one of the three directors of the nonprofit.

Novik was a co-founder of Archive of Our Own (AO3), a project of OTW that began in 2007 to create an online archive of fan fiction.[22] [23] At the 2019 Hugo Award ceremony, AO3 won the award for Best Related Work; Novik accepted the prize on behalf of all AO3's creators and readers.[24]

Personal life

Novik is married to entrepreneur and writer Charles Ardai. They live in Manhattan. They have one child, a daughter named Evidence Novik Ardai, who was born in 2010.[25]

Awards and nominations

Novik has won the British Fantasy, Locus, Mythopoeic and Nebula Awards, and received nominations for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.[26]

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scope=row style="font-weight: normal" Adult bookalign=center 2019Spinning Silver [27]
scope=row style="font-weight: normal" Fantasyalign=center 2019Spinning Silver [28]
scope=row style="font-weight: normal" Fantasy novelalign=center 2016Uprooted [29]
scope=row style="font-weight: normal" New writeralign=center 2007His Majesty's Dragon
scope=row style="font-weight: normal" Fantasy novelalign=center 2018Spinning Silver[30]
scope=row style="font-weight: normal" rowspan=4 Novelalign=center 2007His Majesty's Dragon[31]
align=center 2016Uprooted [32]
align=center 2019Spinning Silver[33]
align=center 2017Temeraire [34]
scope=row style="font-weight: normal" John W. Campbell AwardNew writeralign=center 2007Naomi Novikalign=center [35]
scope=row style="font-weight: normal" rowspan=5 Locus AwardFantasy novelalign=center 2016Uprooted[36]
align=center 2019Spinning Silver[37]
align=center 2022The Last Graduate[38]
First novelalign=center 2007Temeraire: In the Service of the King [39]
align=center 2016"Spinning Silver" [40]
scope=row style="font-weight: normal" rowspan=2 Lodestar AwardYoung adult bookalign=center 2021A Deadly Education
align=center 2022The Last Graduate
scope=row style="font-weight: normal" rowspan=2 Mythopoeic AwardAdult literaturealign=center 2016Uprooted[41]
align=center 2019Spinning Silver[42]
scope=row style="font-weight: normal" rowspan=2 Nebula AwardNovelalign=center 2016Uprooted[43]
align=center 2019Spinning Silver [44]
scope=row style="font-weight: normal" World Fantasy Awardalign=center 2016Uprooted[45]

Publications

Standalone novels

Temeraire series

See main article: Temeraire (series).

  1. His Majesty's Dragon (Del Rey, 2006)
  2. Throne of Jade (Del Rey, 2006)
  3. Black Powder War (Del Rey, 2006)
  4. Empire of Ivory (Del Rey, 2007)
  5. Victory of Eagles (Del Rey, 2008)
  6. Tongues of Serpents (Del Rey, 2010)
  7. Crucible of Gold (Del Rey, 2012)
  8. Blood of Tyrants (Del Rey, 2013)
  9. League of Dragons (Del Rey, 2016)

Omnibus editions

Scholomance trilogy

Short stories in anthologies

Short stories

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Naomi Novik Talks Spinning Silver, Her Rumpelstiltskin-Inspired Novel. Jackson . Frannie . . July 10, 2018 . March 9, 2020.
  2. Web site: Fox . Rose . Interview: Naomi Novik . . November 11, 2021 . August 14, 2006.
  3. News: A New Writer Is Soaring on the Wings of a Dragon. October 11, 2006. The New York Times. Julie. Bosman. May 19, 2010.
  4. Web site: Compton Crook Award: Past Award Winners . July 3, 2019 . Baltimore Science Fiction Society.
  5. Web site: r/YAwriters AMA: Naomi Novik, author of Uprooted & the Temeraire series. Reddit. February 23, 2016 . December 14, 2020.
  6. Web site: Creen . Willow . September 11, 2006 . Peter Jackson Options Temeraire . May 22, 2021 . Empire.
  7. News: September 12, 2006 . Peter Jackson enters dragons' den . .
  8. Web site: Books by Naomi Novik. Books on Tape. December 2, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20120405125644/http://www.booksontape.com/search.cfm?author=60490&. April 5, 2012. dead.
  9. Web site: Tongues of Serpents: Book 6 in the Temeraire series. Tantor Media. May 23, 2021.
  10. Web site: Will Supervillains Be on the Final? Liberty Vocational, Vol. 1 . . May 23, 2021 . March 7, 2011.
  11. Web site: New Release Interview: Blood of Tyrants by Naomi Novik. Shawn. Speakman. August 13, 2013. Suvudu. Random House. December 23, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131224094504/http://sf-fantasy.suvudu.com/2013/08/new-release-interview-blood-of-tyrants-by-naomi-novik.html. December 24, 2013. dead.
  12. Web site: Kit . Borys . Ellen DeGeneres to Produce Adaptation of Naomi Novik's Fantasy Novel 'Uprooted' (Exclusive) . . May 23, 2021 . June 8, 2015.
  13. Web site: Speakman . Shawn . Spinning Silver – A New Naomi Novik Short Story . NaomiNovik.com . May 22, 2021 . October 6, 2016.
  14. Canfield . David . Spinning Silver author Naomi Novik to launch epic new trilogy this fall . . May 22, 2021 . February 7, 2020.
  15. Web site: D'Alessandro . Anthony . Universal & Mandeville Films Partner On Naomi Novik's 'Scholomance' Series . . May 23, 2021 . May 26, 2020.
  16. Web site: Irankunda . Larissa . Racism vs. Representation: The Missteps of Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education . . May 23, 2021 . October 16, 2020.
  17. Web site: Tanjeem . Namera . A Response to Claims of Racism in Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education . Book Riot . May 23, 2021 . December 3, 2020.
  18. Web site: Novik . Naomi . Apology for A Deadly Education . NaomiNovik.com . October 10, 2020 . May 23, 2021.
  19. Web site: Organization for Transformative Works. December 14, 2020.
  20. https://www.transformativeworks.org/wp-content/uploads/old/otw_incorp.pdf Certificate of Incorporation of Organization for Transformative Works (2007)
  21. Web site: Five Things Naomi Novik Said . December 14, 2020 . Archive of Our Own.
  22. Book: Fiesler, Casey . Morrison, Shannon . Bruckman, Amy S . 2016. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. An Archive of Their Own: A Case Study of Feminist HCI and Values in Design . 2574. 10.1145/2858036.2858409 . 9781450333627. 8394004 . We need a central archive of our own. - Naomi [Novik], in a blog post dated May 17, 2007 . September 6, 2021.
  23. Web site: An Archive of Our Own: How AO3 built a nonprofit fanfiction empire and safe haven. Busch. Caitlin. SyFy. Dismayed by the situation, Coppa and her co-founders, sci-fi and fantasy author Naomi Novik and Rebecca Tushnet, a First Amendment rights professor at Harvard University, decided to do something about it. They worked together with the other members of the founding board, a group of seven passionate, "incredibly collaborative" fans and creators, to make a new kind of archive.. February 12, 2019. September 6, 2021. February 19, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190219085837/https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/an-archive-of-our-own-how-ao3-built-a-nonprofit-fanfiction-empire-and-safe-haven. dead.
  24. Web site: The Archive of Our Own just won a Hugo. That's huge for fanfiction. Romano. Aja. Vox. The [Hugo] awards ceremony took place on August 18, 2019, at Worldcon in Dublin, where AO3 co-founder Naomi Novik, accepted it on behalf of all of the website's creators and readers.. August 19, 2019. September 6, 2021.
  25. Web site: Novik. Naomi. Temeraire Fanart Contest Results!. NaomiNovik.com. April 8, 2011. December 14, 2020.
  26. Web site: Naomi Novik Awards . . Locus Science Fiction Foundation . August 2, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210628011255/http://www.sfadb.com/Naomi_Novik . June 28, 2021 . live.
  27. Web site: Spinning Silver Awards & Grants. July 3, 2020. American Library Association.
  28. Web site: DJangi . Taraneh . Congratulations to Our 2019 Audie Award Winners . . May 22, 2021 . March 5, 2019.
  29. Web site: Winners of the British Fantasy Awards 2016. The British Fantasy Society. July 3, 2019. July 3, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190703195525/https://www.britishfantasysociety.org/british-fantasy-awards/winners-of-the-british-fantasy-awards-2016/. dead.
  30. Web site: Goodreads Choice Awards 2018: Best Fantasy . May 22, 2021 . Goodreads.
  31. Web site: 2007 Hugo Awards. August 9, 2007. The Hugo Awards. en-US. July 3, 2019.
  32. Web site: 2016 Hugo Awards. December 29, 2015. The Hugo Awards. en-US. July 3, 2019.
  33. Web site: 2019 Hugo Award & 1944 Retro Hugo Award Finalists. Cheryl. April 2, 2019. The Hugo Awards. en-US. July 3, 2019.
  34. Web site: 2017 Hugo Awards. December 31, 2016. The Hugo Awards. en-US. July 3, 2019.
  35. Web site: Campbell Award. August 9, 2007. The Hugo Awards. en-US. July 3, 2019.
  36. Web site: 2016 Locus Awards Winners. June 25, 2016. Locus. en-US. July 3, 2019.
  37. Web site: June 29, 2019. 2019 Locus Awards Winners. July 3, 2019. Locus. en-US.
  38. 2022 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists . . May 10, 2022 . May 10, 2022.
  39. Web site: 2007 Locus Awards Winners . . May 22, 2021 . June 16, 2007.
  40. Web site: 2017 Locus Awards Winners. June 24, 2017. Locus. en-US. July 3, 2019.
  41. Web site: Mythopoeic Awards 2016. Mythopoeic Society . July 3, 2019.
  42. Web site: Mythopoeic Awards: 2019 Winners Announced. Mythopoeic Society. August 4, 2019. August 10, 2021.
  43. Web site: 2015 Nebula Awards Winners. May 15, 2016. Locus Online. https://web.archive.org/web/20160921102150/http://locusmag.com/News/2016/05/10777/. September 21, 2016. dead.
  44. Web site: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. July 3, 2020. The Nebula Awards. en-US.
  45. Web site: Nominees World Fantasy Convention. en-US. July 3, 2019.

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