Estelle Faye
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Estelle Faye | |
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| Born | 1 May 1978 |
| Occupation(s) | writer, actress, screenwriter |
Estelle Faye (born 1 May 1978) 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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After taking drama classes in Paris and San Francisco,[1] Estelle Faye turned her attention to directing and writing science fiction, horror and fantasy.[2][3] In 2008, she graduated from the screenwriting section of Femis.[4][5] 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.[6] She published her first adult novel Porcelaine.[6] 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.[7]
In 2018 she published a feminist and anarchist novel, Les nuages de Magellan.[8]
Her novel L'arpenteuse des rêves published in 2021 is an ecological tale[9] inspired by the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and evolves around themes of climatic change.[6]
Her books are illustrated by Amandine Labarre.[10]
Since 2019, she has been taking part in the writing podcast Procrastination with Lionel Davoust and Mélanie Fazi.[11]
She is a member of the Charte des auteurs et illustrateurs jeunesse.[12] She intervened in feminist and gender themed conferences on science fiction.[13]
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,[14] among which ïan Larue, Silène Edgar, Sylvie Lainé, Robin Hobb, Sara Doke, Sylvie Denis, Lucie Chenu, Sarah Buschmann, Charlotte Bousquet and Anne Besson.[15]
Awards
- Elbakin.net Award, 2013, for Porcelaine.[16]
- Elbakin.net Award, 2015, for Thya.[16]
- Prix Imaginales, 2015, pour La voie des oracles.
- Prix Actusf de l'Uchronie, 2016, for La Voie des oracles, tome 3.[17]
- Prix Imaginales, 2016, for Une robe couleur d’océan.
- Prix Bob-Morane, 2019, of Les Nuages de Magellan.[18]
- Prix Rosny aîné du, 2019, for Les Nuages de Magellan[19][20]
- 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[21]
- Prix Ados Créateurs, 2023 for L’Arpenteuse de rêves[22]
