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Tade Thompson

Tade Thompson

British-Nigerian speculative fiction writer

Tade Thompson FRSL is a British-born Nigerian psychiatrist and writer best known for his science fiction novel series Rosewater.[1][2]

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Life and career

Thompson was born in London, England, to Yoruba parents. His family left the United Kingdom for Nigeria in 1976, when Thompson was seven. He grew up in Nigeria, where he studied medicine and social anthropology. He went on to specialise in psychiatry. He returned to the UK in 1998, where he has remained except for a year spent working in Samoa. He now lives on the south coast of England.[3][4][2]

His novels and short stories have been critically well received. Thompson is a Nommo Award and a Kitschies Golden Tentacle Award winner. He is a John W. Campbell Award finalist as well as nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award, the British Science Fiction Award, and the Nommo Award.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Thompson is also an illustrator and artist.[1][9][10] His novella The Murders of Molly Southbourne has been optioned for screen adaptation.[3][11]

His novel Rosewater, the first book in the Wormwood trilogy set in Nigeria won the Arthur C. Clarke award in 2019.[12]

In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[13]

Bibliography

Novels

The Wormwood Trilogy

  • —— (2016). Rosewater. (revised version 2018)[14]
  • —— (2019). The Rosewater Insurrection (paperback ed.). Orbit. pp. 1–374. ISBN 978-0316449083.
  • —— (2019). The Rosewater Redemption (paperback ed.). Orbit. pp. 1–416. ISBN 978-0316449090.

Stand-alone

Novellas and short fiction

The Molly Southbourne Trilogy

Stand-alone

  • "The McMahon Institute for Unquiet Minds" (2005)
  • "Slip Road" (2009)
  • "Shadow" (2010)
  • "Notes from Gethsemane" (2012)
  • "Bicycle Girl" (2013)
  • "One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sunlight" (2013)
  • "Slip Road" (revised) (2014)
  • "Budo or, The Flying Orchid" (2014)
  • "The Monkey House" (2015)
  • "Child, Funeral, Thief, Death" (2015)
  • "The Last Pantheon" (2015) (with Nick Wood)
  • "Decommissioned" (2016)
  • "Household Gods" (2016)
  • "The Apologists" (2016)
  • "Gnaw" (2016)
  • "Bootblack" (2017)
  • "Yard Dog" (2018)
  • "Jackdaw" (2022)

Poems

  • "Komolafe" (2013)

Essays

  • The Last Word on the Last Pantheon (2016) (with Nick Wood)
  • Please Stop Talking about the 'Rise' of African Science Fiction (2018)

Other work

References

  1. [1]
    Roberts, Adam (4 October 2018). "Rosewater by Tade Thompson review – a stellar SF debut". The Guardian.
  2. [2]
    "Tade Thompson". Strange Horizons. 1 March 2017.
  3. [3]
    "C&W Agency". cwagency.co.uk.
  4. [4]
    "Tade Thompson | Authors | Macmillan". US Macmillan.
  5. [5]
    "Summary Bibliography: Tade Thompson". www.isfdb.org.
  6. [6]
    Rosewater. 21 November 2017. ISBN 9780316449038.
  7. [7]
    "sfadb : Tade Thompson Awards". www.sfadb.com.
  8. [8]
    "BSFA London Meetings: Interview with Tade Thompson". 18 July 2018.
  9. [9]
    Brown, Eric (15 January 2016). "The best science fiction novels – review roundup". The Guardian.
  10. [10]
    Flood, Alison (8 March 2016). "Margaret Atwood wins Kitschies Red Tentacle award for The Heart Goes Last". The Guardian.
  11. [11]
    "Interview: Tade Thompson - Lightspeed Magazine". Lightspeed Magazine. 24 October 2017.
  12. [12]
    Cain, Sian (17 July 2019). "Tade Thompson's 'gritty' alien invasion tale wins Arthur C Clarke award". The Guardian.
  13. [13]
    Creamer, Ella (12 July 2023). "Royal Society of Literature aims to broaden representation as it announces 62 new fellows". The Guardian.
  14. [14]
    Tade Thompson (5 September 2018). "Author Interview: Tade Thompson on Rosewater". The Illustrated Page.
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