- Source: Christopher Priest
Christopher Priest (14 Juli 1943 – 2 Februari 2024) adalah seorang novelis dan penulis fiksi ilmiah asal Inggris. Karya-karyanya antara lain Fugue for a Darkening Island, The Inverted World, The Affirmation, The Glamour, The Prestige, dan The Separation.
Priest sangat dipengaruhi oleh fiksi ilmiah H. G. Wells dan pada tahun 2006 diangkat sebagai Wakil Presiden internasional H. G. Masyarakat Wells.
Latar belakang
Priest lahir di Cheadle, Cheshire, Inggris, pada tahun 1943.
Sebagai seorang anak, Priest menghabiskan beberapa waktu berlibur di wilayah Inggris Dorset. Di sini dia menjelajahi benteng bukit kuno Maiden Castle, dekat Dorchester, yang nantinya akan dia gunakan sebagai lokasi novel Impian Wessex. Dia mulai menulis segera setelah lulus sekolah dan menjadi penulis lepas penuh waktu sejak tahun 1968.
Penghargaan
BSFA Award kategori novel terbaik selama empat kali; 1974 untuk Inverted World; tahun 1998 untuk The Extremes; 2002 untuk The Separation dan 2011 untuk novel The Islanders.
James Tait Black Memorial Prize kategori fiksi untuk karya The Prestige.
BSFA Award atas kumpulan cerpennya pada tahun 1979 untuk karyanya Palely Loitering; dan dinominasikan dalam penghargaan Hugo Awards kategori Best Novel, Best Novella, Best Novelette, dan Best Non-Fiction Book The Space Machine memenangi penghargaan SF Prize Ditmar Awards, tahun 1977. Esai sastra Priest tahun 1979 berjudul The Making of the Lesbian Horse (dipublikasikan sebagai Novacon) mengantarkan dia meraih penghargaan Inverted World.
Tahun 1983 nama Priest tercatat sebagai salah satu dari 20 novelis penrima penghargaan Granta Best of Young British Novelists. Tahun 1988 dia meraih Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis untuk karya The Glamour.
Kehidupan pribadi
Priest tinggal di Devon. Dia menikah dengan penulis Lisa Tuttle sampai tahun 1987 kemudian menikah dengan Leigh Kennedy sampai tahun 2011, yang memberikan anak kembar. Selanjutnya dia menempuh hidup bersama penulis Nina Allan.
Bibliografi
= Novel
=Indoctrinaire. London: Faber and Faber, 1970.
Fugue for a Darkening Island. London: Faber and Faber, 1972. Campbell nominee, 1973.
The Inverted World. London: Faber and Faber, 1974. BSFA winner, 1974, Hugo Award nominee, 1975.
The Space Machine. London: Faber and Faber, 1976.
A Dream of Wessex (US title The Perfect Lover). London: Faber and Faber, 1977.
The Affirmation. London: Faber and Faber, 1981. BSFA nominee, 1981.
The Glamour. London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. BSFA nominee, 1984.
Short Circuit. Sphere Books, 1986. (Film tie-in novelisation as Colin Wedgelock)
Mona Lisa. Sphere Books, 1986. (Film tie-in novelisation as John Luther Novak)
The Quiet Woman. London: Bloomsbury, 1990.
The Prestige. London: Simon and Schuster, 1995. BSFA nominee, 1995; World Fantasy Award winner, James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner, Clarke Awards nominee, 1996.
The Extremes. London: Simon and Schuster, 1998. BSFA winner, 1998; Clarke Award nominee, 1999.
eXistenZ. Harper, 1999. (Film tie-in novelisation)
The Separation. Scribner, 2002. Old Earth Books 2005—BSFA winner, 2002; Clark Award winner, Campbell Award nominee, 2003.
The Islanders. Gollancz, 2011. BSFA winner, 2011; Campbell Award winner, 2012.
The Adjacent. Gollancz, 20 June 2013.
= Antologi cerpen
=Real-time World. Faber and Faber, 1975. Reissued 2009.
An Infinite Summer. Faber and Faber, 1979. Three stories reissued in The Dream Archipelago.
The Dream Archipelago. Earthlight, 1999. Reissued 2009.
Ersatz Wines – Instructive Short Stories GrimGrin Studio, 2008. Anthology of early works.
= Skenario
=The Stooge. 2010 or 2011.
= Non-fiksi
=Your Book of Film-Making. London: Faber and Faber, 1974.
The Making of the Lesbian Horse. Novacon 9 for the Birmingham Science Fiction Group, 1979. Priest attended as the Guest of Honour.
The Book on the Edge of Forever. Seattle: Fantagraphics, 1993.
"Christopher Priest's Top 10 Slipstream Books". 2003. An essay for London's The Guardian, listing ten seminal novels of the slipstream genre, including works by J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, Borges, Steve Erickson, and Steven Millhauser.
"Foreword" to Stephen E. Andrews' and Nick Rennison's 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels. London: A&C Black Academic and Professional/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7136-7585-6.
The Magic – The Story of a Film. Hastings: GrimGrin Studio, 2008.
"La Jetée". Essay in Cinema Futura: Essays on Favourite Science Fiction Movies, edited by Mark Morris. PS Publishing, 2010. ISBN 978-1-84863-095-6.
Referesi
Pranala luar
Situs web resmi
Christopher Priest at British Council: Literature
London Calling Interview with Christopher Priest
(Inggris) Christopher Priest di Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseInternet Speculative Fiction Database
His story "The Discharge" Diarsipkan 2009-05-09 di Wayback Machine. at Sci Fiction
1995 interview by David Langford, includes brief summaries and comments by Priest on most of his novels to date.
His Guest of Honour speech at the 2005 World Science Fiction Convention
(Prancis) Interview de Christopher Priest in Actusf.com
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