Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold
Bujold at home in 2009
Bujold at home in 2009
BornLois Joy McMaster[1]
(1949-11-02) November 2, 1949 (age 75)
Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican
Alma materOhio State University[2]
Period1985–present
GenreScience fiction, fantasy
Children2
Website
dendarii.com

Lois McMaster Bujold (/buːˈʒoʊld/ ⓘ boo-ZHOHLD; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer.[1] She is an acclaimed writer, having won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record (not counting his Retro Hugos). Her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. In the fantasy genre, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and both her fourth Hugo Award and second Nebula Award were for Paladin of Souls. In 2011 she was awarded the Skylark Award.[3] She has won two Hugo Awards for Best Series, in 2017 for the Vorkosigan Saga[4] and in 2018 for the World of the Five Gods.[5] The Science Fiction Writers of America named her its 36th SFWA Grand Master in 2019.[6]

The bulk of Bujold's works comprises three series: the Vorkosigan Saga, the World of the Five Gods, and the Sharing Knife series.

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  3. ^ "Skylark Award". New England Science Fiction Association. Archived from the original on 2008-12-04. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  4. ^ "2017 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. 31 December 2016. Archived from the original on 12 August 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  5. ^ "2018 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. 2018-03-15. Archived from the original on 2018-04-02. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
  6. ^ "Lois McMaster Bujold Named SFWA Damon Knight Grand Master". Nebula Awards. Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. 9 December 2019. Archived from the original on 9 December 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2019.