Estelle Faye

Estelle Faye began her career as a French actor and screenwriter. Since 2009 she has been best known as a science fiction and fantasy author, where her novels and short stories have won several awards.

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Biography

After taking drama classes in Paris and San Francisco, Estelle Faye turned her attention to directing and writing science fiction, horror and fantasy. In 2008, she graduated from the screenwriting section of Femis. She has written several short films, one of which won the Prix France Télévisions.
She started to write fantasy fiction in 2008 after responding to a call by Calmann-Lévy to propose stories for an anthology around the theme of dragons. She published her first adult novel Porcelaine. In 2017 she published a dark fantasy novel Les seigneurs de Boyen, in which monsters, magic, sorcery are invoked in a tale questioning the making of real away from circles of power. The novel also features various magical creatures, among which a changeling, a hermaphrodite, a monk of uncertain sexual status, a lesbian, a vulture, all creatures whose differences sexual or magical coerce and are attracted to each other, revelling a part of the revolution to be.
In 2018 she published a feminist and anarchist novel, Les nuages de Magellan.
Her novel L'arpenteuse des rêves published in 2021 is an ecological tale inspired by the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and evolves around themes of climatic change.
Her books are illustrated by Amandine Labarre.
Since 2019, she has been taking part in the writing podcast Procrastination with Lionel Davoust and Mélanie Fazi.
She is a member of the Charte des auteurs et illustrateurs jeunesse. She intervened in feminist and gender themed conferences on science fiction.
Along with everal authors she published a letter of support for Stéphanie Nicot after her eviction as director of Les Imaginales by the Épinal town hall, among which ïan Larue, Sylvie Lainé, Robin Hobb, Sara Doke, Sylvie Denis, Lucie Chenu,, and.

Awards

Elbakin.net Award, 2013, for Porcelaine.
Elbakin.net Award, 2015, for Thya.
, 2015, pour La voie des oracles.
Prix Actusf de l'Uchronie, 2016, for La Voie des oracles, tome 3.
Prix Imaginales, 2016, for Une robe couleur d’océan.
, 2019, of Les Nuages de Magellan.
Prix Rosny aîné du, 2019, for Les Nuages de Magellan
Prix Imaginales, 2019, pour Les Guerriers de glace.
Prix Rosny aîné, 2021, for Conte de la pluie qui n’est pas venue.
Prix Renaudot for Les Magies de l’archipel – tome 1- Arcadia
Prix Ados Créateurs, 2023 for ''L’Arpenteuse de rêves''

Works

Drama

Le Côté bleu du ciel, L'Harmattan, coll. « Théâtre des cinq continents »

Novels

''La Voie des oracles serie''

Thya, Scrineo, 2014Enoch, Scrineo, 2015Aylus, Scrineo, 2016

''Bohen serie''

Les Seigneurs de Bohen, 2017Les révoltés de Bohen, 2019

''Les Magies de l'archipel serie''

Arcadia, Nathan, 2022

La cité mirage, Nathan, 2023L'ile pirate, Nathan, 2023

Stand alone novels

L'été de la reine bleuePorcelaineWidjigoUn éclat de givre, 2014Un reflet de Lune, 2022Les Seigneurs de Bohen, 2017Les guerriers de glaceLes nuages de Magellan, 2018Le drakkar éternel, 2020La dernière Amazone, 2021Brouillard sur la baie, 2021L’Arpenteuse de rêves, 2021Il était ma légende, 2022Les Magies de l’archipel, 2023Le défi de Yaran, 2024La sirène et la licorne, 2024

Anthologies

En-dessous, Parchemins et traverses, coll. « Les Anthologies des réalités imaginaires », 2014.Dimension routes de légendes, légendes de la route, with Jérôme Akkouche, Rivière blanche, 2016.