N. K. Jemisin

Who is this?

Nora Keita Jemisin (born September 19, 1972) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her fiction includes a wide range of themes, notably cultural conflict and oppression. Her debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010), and the subsequent books in her Inheritance Trilogy received critical acclaim. Jemisin has won several awards for her work, including multiple Locus Awards, starting with her first novel. Her Broken Earth series made her the first African-American author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel, as well as the first author to win in three consecutive years, and the first to win for all three novels in a trilogy. She won a fourth Hugo in 2020 for the novelette Emergency Skin and a fifth in 2022 for the comic book series Far Sector. Jemisin was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program prize in 2020. In 2025, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association named Jemisin the 42nd Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master in recognition of her significant contributions to the literature of science fiction and fantasy.

Career

1. 1972
   Born
2. 2011
   Won Locus Award for Best First Novel
3. 2016
   Won Hugo Award for Best Novel
4. 2017
   Won Hugo Award for Best Novel
5. 2018
   Won Nebula Award for Best Novel
6. 2018
   Won Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
7. Notable work: The Inheritance Trilogy
8. Notable work: The Broken Earth

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Iowa City
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: novelist, science fiction writer, writer
• •Genre: speculative fiction