Author

Aliette de Bodard

Aliette de Bodard (born November 10, 1982) is a French-American speculative fiction writer. She has received accolades including the British Fantasy Award, BSFA Award, Ignyte Award, Locus Award, and Nebula Award.

In this article References Browse the field

Aliette de Bodard

Name: Aliette de Bodard
Born: 10 November 1982
Birthplace: New York City, U.S.
Occupation: Computer engineer, author
Awards: * Nebula Award for Best Short Story (2012)
Nationality: United States · France
Fields: fantasy literature · science fiction · software engineering · science fiction literature
Education: Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague · Lycee Francais Charles de Gaulle · Lycée Louis-le-Grand · École polytechnique
Honours: BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction · Nebula Award for Best Short Story · Locus Award for Best Short Story · Nebula Award for Best Novelette · BSFA Award for Best Novel · Nebula Award for Best Novella
Languages: American English · French · Vietnamese

Reference Check

Propose documentary evidence for Aliette de Bodard. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.

World of VALÉORINE

Documentary connections

Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.

Documentary evidence

Documentary basis

Authority files

wikidata · Q4726543 · wikipedia · Aliette de Bodard

Aliette de Bodard studied at Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, Lycee Francais Charles de Gaulle and Lycée Louis-le-Grand. The recorded working language is American English, French and Vietnamese. The field of work recorded is fantasy literature, science fiction and software engineering. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are science fiction, fantasy, mystery fiction and thriller. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Distinctions recorded are BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction, Nebula Award for Best Short Story, Locus Award for Best Short Story and Nebula Award for Best Novelette.

Key facts

• Name — Aliette de Bodard • Born — 10 November 1982 • Birthplace — New York City, U.S. • Occupation — Computer engineer, author • Genre — Science fiction, Fantasy • Notable Works — "Immersion", "The Waiting Stars", The House of Shattered Wings, The Tea Master and the Detective • Awards — * Nebula Award for Best Short Story (2012) • Nebula Award for Best Novelette (2013) • Locus Award for Best Short Story (2013) • BSFA Award for Best Novel (2015) • BSFA Award for Best Short Story (2010, 2015) • BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction (2018) • Nebula Award for Best Novella (2018) • Ignyte Award for Best Novelette (2021)

Writing

De Bodard published her first short story in 2006. In 2007, she was a winner of Writers of the Future, and in 2009 was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She has been published in Interzone, Hub Magazine, Black Static, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Asimov's, Realms of Fantasy, Apex Magazine, among others. Her short story "The Shipmaker" won the 2010 British Science Fiction Award for Best Short Fiction. She won the 2012 Nebula Award for her short story "Immersion". She also won the 2013 Nebula Award for "The Waiting Stars". Her novel The House of Shattered Wings, set in a devastated Paris ruled by fallen angels, was published by Gollancz/Roc in August 2015. It won the BSFA Award for Best Novel of 2015. Her story "Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight" won the BSFA Award for Best Short Story of 2015, the first time a single author has ever won both fiction categories in the same year. Her Xuya Universe novella The Tea Master and the Detective won the 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novella.

Themes

Many of her stories are set in alternate history worlds where Aztec or pre-communist Vietnamese cultures are dominant. In a 2018 interview with L'épaule d'Orion, she stated that "taste is largely underutilised sensorily in science-fiction... future worlds in SF have a tendency to be sanitised." In a 2021 interview with Locus, she stated that she tried to write "parent-child relationships, and very often a mother-daughter relationship, because that's a thing you don't often see, aside from the controlling mother and the estranged mother. You don't even often see characters with dead mothers – the mothers tend to just fade out."

Personal life

De Bodard is of French and Vietnamese descent, born in the US, and grew up in Paris. French is her first language but she writes in English. A graduate of École Polytechnique, she works as a software engineer (As of 2024 in railway signalling), and is a member of the Written in Blood writers group. She is bisexual.

Awards

• Year — Title — Award — Category — Result — Ref Reference • 2009 — — — John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer — — — Finalist • 2010 — BSFA Award — Short Fiction • Nebula Award — Novelette — Finalist • 2011 — Hugo Award — Novelette — Finalist • Nebula Award — Short Story — Finalist • 2012 — (Servant of the Underworld) — Grand prix de l'Imaginaire — Roman étranger ('Foreign novel') — Nominated • Nebula Award — Short Story • On a Red Station, Drifting — Novella — Finalist • 2013 — James Tiptree Jr. Award — — — Honor List • Locus Award — Short Story • Hugo Award — Short Story — Finalist • Theodore Sturgeon Award — — — Finalist • On a Red Station, Drifting — Hugo Award — Novella — Finalist • Locus Award — Novella — Finalist • Theodore Sturgeon Award — — — Finalist • Nebula Award — Novelette • 2014 — Nebula Award — Short Story — Finalist * ("Scattered Along the River of Heaven") — Premio Ignotus — Mejor cuento extranjero ('Best Foreign Story') — Finalist • Hugo Award — Novelette — Finalist • Locus Award — Novelette — Finalist • 2015 — Locus Award — Short Story — Finalist • BSFA Award — Novel • Locus Award — Novelette — Finalist • BSFA Award — Short Fiction • El ciclo de Xuya (The Xuya Cycle) — Premio Ignotus — Mejor antología ('Best Collected Work') — Finalist • En una estación roja, a la deriva (On a Red Station, Drifting) — Mejor cuento extranjero ('Best Foreign Story') — Finalist * ("Scattered Along the River of Heaven") — Grand prix de l'Imaginaire — Nouvelle étrangère ('Foreign novella') • 2016 — Locus Award — Fantasy Novel — Finalist • Locus Award — Novella — Finalist • Locus Award — Short Story — Finalist • Eugie Award — — — Finalist • 2017 — Canopus Award — Previously Published Short-Form Fiction — Finalist • Locus Award — Novelette — Finalist • Locus Award — Short Story — Finalist • WSFA Small Press Award — — — Finalist • 2018 — ("Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight") — Premio Ignotus — Mejor cuento extranjero ('Best Foreign Story') • Locus Award — Novelette — Finalist • Hugo Award — Novelette — Finalist • Locus Award — Fantasy Novel — Finalist • On Motherhood and Erasure — BSFA Award — Non-Fiction • Nebula Award — Novella • 2019 — In the Vanishers' Palace — Lambda Literary Awards — Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror — Finalist • British Fantasy Award — Novella • Hugo Award — Novella — Finalist • Locus Award — Novella — Finalist • World Fantasy Award — Novella — Finalist • 2020 — Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight — Locus Award — Collection — Finalist • British Fantasy Award — Collection • Memorials (ja-Latn, "Memorials") — Seiun Award — Best Translated Short Story — Finalist • 2021 — Fireheart Tiger — BSFA Award — Short Fiction • Nebula Award — Novella — Finalist • Ignyte Award — Novelette • Hugo Award — Novelette — Finalist • Locus Award — Novelette — Finalist • Locus Award — Short Story — Finalist • Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders — Locus Award — Novella — Finalist • Seven of Infinities — Locus Award — Novella — Finalist • 2022 — Fireheart Tiger — Locus Award — Novella — Finalist • Hugo Award — Novella — Finalist • Ignyte Award — Novella — Finalist • Locus Award — Novelette — Finalist • Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances — BSFA Award — Short Fiction • BSFA Award — Novel — Finalist • 2023 — Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances — Locus Award — Novella — Finalist • Arthur C. Clarke Award — — • Locus Award — SF Novel — Finalist • 2024 — Locus Award — SF Novel — Finalist • Hugo Award — Short Story — Finalist • Locus Award — Short Story — Finalist • Navigational Entanglements — BSFA Award — Shorter Fiction — Finalist • Hugo Award — Series — Finalist • 2025 — Locus Award — Locus Award for Best Short Story — Finalist • Navigational Entanglements — Hugo Award — Novella — Finalist • Locus Award — Novella — Finalist • — — ESFS Awards — Best Author

The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 26 August 2026.

Elsewhere in Books

39,529 published records in this field, each with its sources named.

Best supported in this field

Read the complete books index

For owners

Own a work by Aliette de Bodard?

A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.

Request a valuation How selling works

Aliette de Bodard

Documentary connections

Documentary basis

In this article

Biography

Key facts

Writing

Themes

Personal life

Awards

Text attribution

Notes from the source article

References

People, houses and institutions

Studied at

Elsewhere in Books

Own a work by Aliette de Bodard?

Documentary connections

Documentary basis

In this article

BiographyOpen · 55⌄

Biography

Key facts

Writing

Themes

Personal life

Honours and membershipsOpen · 11⌄

Awards

Notes, references and evidenceOpen · 44⌄

Text attribution

Notes from the source article

References

People, houses and institutions

Studied at

Contemporaries and associates

Elsewhere in Books

Own a work by Aliette de Bodard?