Élisabeth Vonarburg (born 5 August 1947) is a

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...

writer. She was born in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Si ...

(France) and has lived in

Chicoutimi Chicoutimi () is the most populous borough (arrondissement) of the city of Saguenay in Quebec, Canada. It is situated at the confluence of the Saguenay and Chicoutimi rivers. During the 20th century, it became the main administrative and com ...

(now Saguenay),

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirte ...

, Canada since 1973. From 1979 to 1990 she was the literary director of the French-Canadian

science fiction magazine A science fiction magazine is a publication that offers primarily science fiction, either in a hard-copy periodical format or on the Internet. Science fiction magazines traditionally featured speculative fiction in short story, novelette, nove ...

'' Solaris''. Her first

novel A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself ...

, ''Le Silence de la Cité'' (''The Silence in the City''), appeared in 1981. She has received several awards, including "Le Grand Prix de la SF française" in 1982 and a

Philip K. Dick Award The Philip K. Dick Award is an American science fiction award given annually at Norwescon and sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and (since 2005) the Philip K. Dick Trust. Named after science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, ...

special citation in 1992 for '' In the Mothers' Land'' the English version of ''Chroniques du pays des mères''. She is the author of ''Cycle de Tyranaël''.

Bibliography

Series

Maerlande

Tyranaël

Reine de Mémoire

Les Pierres et les Roses

Other Novels and Story Collections

External links

"Dreams of the Real: ''Dreams of the Sea'' by Elisabeth Vonarburg"
by John Garrison, ''Strange Horizons'', 28 June 2004 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vonarburg, Elisabeth 1947 births Living people Writers from Paris Canadian science fiction writers Canadian speculative fiction critics Canadian speculative fiction editors French science fiction writers Writers from Saguenay, Quebec Science fiction critics French emigrants to Quebec Canadian women novelists Women science fiction and fantasy writers French women novelists Canadian novelists in French Canadian women non-fiction writers Université Laval alumni