Aliette de Bodard


Aliette de Bodard is a French-American speculative fiction writer. She has received accolades including the British Fantasy Award, BSFA Award, Ignyte Award, Locus Award, and Nebula Award.
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Writing

De Bodard published her first short story in 2006. In 2007, she was a winner of Writers of the Future, and in 2009 was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She has been published in Interzone, Hub Magazine, Black Static, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Asimov's, Realms of Fantasy, Apex Magazine, among others.
Her short story "The Shipmaker" won the 2010 British Science Fiction Award for Best Short Fiction. She won the 2012 Nebula Award for her short story "Immersion". She also won the 2013 Nebula Award for "The Waiting Stars".
Her novel The House of Shattered Wings, set in a devastated Paris ruled by fallen angels, was published by Gollancz/Roc in August 2015. It won the BSFA Award for Best Novel of 2015. Her story "Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight" won the BSFA Award for Best Short Story of 2015, the first time a single author has ever won both fiction categories in the same year. Her Xuya Universe novella The Tea Master and the Detective won the 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novella.

Themes

Many of her stories are set in alternate history worlds where Aztec or pre-communist Vietnamese cultures are dominant. In a 2018 interview with L'épaule d'Orion, she stated that "taste is largely underutilised sensorily in science-fiction... future worlds in SF have a tendency to be sanitised." In a 2021 interview with Locus, she stated that she tried to write "parent-child relationships, and very often a mother-daughter relationship, because that's a thing you don't often see, aside from the controlling mother and the estranged mother. You don't even often see characters with dead mothers – the mothers tend to just fade out."

Personal life

De Bodard is of French and Vietnamese descent, born in the US, and grew up in Paris. French is her first language but she writes in English. A graduate of École Polytechnique, she works as a software engineer, and is a member of the Written in Blood writers group. She is bisexual.

Awards

YearTitleAwardCategoryResult
2009—John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer—
2010BSFA AwardShort FictionWon
2010Nebula AwardNovelette
2011Hugo AwardNovelette
2011Nebula AwardShort Story
2012
Grand prix de l'ImaginaireRoman étranger
2012Nebula AwardShort StoryWon
2012On a Red Station, DriftingNebula AwardNovella
2013James Tiptree Jr. Award—
2013Locus AwardShort StoryWon
2013Hugo AwardShort Story
2013Theodore Sturgeon Award—
2013On a Red Station, DriftingHugo AwardNovella
2013On a Red Station, DriftingLocus AwardNovella
2013Theodore Sturgeon Award—
2013Nebula AwardNoveletteWon
2014Nebula AwardShort Story
2014
Premio IgnotusMejor cuento extranjero
2014Hugo AwardNovelette
2014Locus AwardNovelette
2015Locus AwardShort Story
2015BSFA AwardNovelWon
2015Locus AwardNovelette
2015BSFA AwardShort FictionWon
2015El ciclo de Xuya
Premio IgnotusMejor antología
2015En una estación roja, a la deriva
Premio IgnotusMejor cuento extranjero
2015
Grand prix de l'ImaginaireNouvelle étrangère
2016Locus AwardFantasy Novel
2016Locus AwardNovella
2016Locus AwardShort Story
2016Eugie Award—
2017Canopus AwardPreviously Published Short-Form Fiction
2017Locus AwardNovelette
2017Locus AwardShort Story
2017WSFA Small Press Award—
2018
Premio IgnotusMejor cuento extranjero
Won
2018Locus AwardNovelette
2018Hugo AwardNovelette
2018Locus AwardFantasy Novel
2018On Motherhood and ErasureBSFA AwardNon-FictionWon
2018Nebula AwardNovellaWon
2019In the Vanishers' PalaceLambda Literary AwardsScience Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
2019British Fantasy AwardNovellaWon
2019Hugo AwardNovella
2019Locus AwardNovella
2019World Fantasy AwardNovella
2020Of Wars, and Memories, and StarlightLocus AwardCollection
2020Of Wars, and Memories, and StarlightBritish Fantasy AwardCollection
2020 Seiun AwardBest Translated Short Story
2021Fireheart TigerBSFA AwardShort FictionWon
2021Fireheart TigerNebula AwardNovella
2021Ignyte AwardNoveletteWon
2021Hugo AwardNovelette
2021Locus AwardNovelette
2021Locus AwardShort Story
2021Of Dragons, Feasts and MurdersLocus AwardNovella
2021Seven of InfinitiesLocus AwardNovella
2022Fireheart TigerLocus AwardNovella
2022Fireheart TigerHugo AwardNovella
2022Fireheart TigerIgnyte AwardNovella
2022Locus AwardNovelette
2022Of Charms, Ghosts and GrievancesBSFA AwardShort FictionWon
2022BSFA AwardNovel
2023Of Charms, Ghosts and GrievancesLocus AwardNovella
2023Arthur C. Clarke Award—
2023Locus AwardSF Novel
2024Locus AwardSF Novel
2024Hugo AwardShort Story
2024Locus AwardShort Story
2024Navigational EntanglementsBSFA AwardShorter Fiction
2024Hugo AwardSeries
2025Locus AwardLocus Award for Best Short Story
2025Navigational EntanglementsHugo AwardNovella
2025Navigational EntanglementsLocus AwardNovella
2025—ESFS AwardsBest AuthorWon