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Nora K. Jemisin è una scrittrice di letteratura fantastica statunitense.

I suoi lavori esplorano un'ampia varietà di temi inclusi i conflitti e l'oppressione culturale. Ha vinto numerosi premi per i suoi lavori inclusi premi Locus e Hugo.

Nel 2010 il suo racconto breve Non-Zero Probabilities è stato un finalista per i premi premio Hugo e Nebula per il miglior racconto breve. Il suo romanzo di debutto, I centomila regni , fu nominato per il Nebula nel 2010 e inserito nella lista breve per il Premio James Tiptree Jr.. Nel 2011 è stata nominata per il Premio Hugo, Premio World Fantasy, e il Premio Locus, vincendo il Locus Award per il miglior primo romanzo. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms ha vinto anche il premio Sense of Gender nel 2011.

Nel 2016, il suo romanzo La quinta stagione ha vinto il premio Hugo per il miglior romanzo, rendendola la prima autrice afroamericana a vincere un premio Hugo in questa categoria. I due seguiti, The Obelisk Gate e The Stone Sky, hanno vinto rispettivamente il premio Hugo per il miglior romanzo nel 2017 e nel 2018,. Wikipedia  

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N. K. Jemisin: Frasi in inglese

“They follow the creed of the Bright: that which disturbs the order of society must be eliminated, regardless of whether it caused the disturbance.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Broken Kingdoms

She rolled her eyes. “You’d think they’d get tired of parroting Itempas and start thinking for themselves after two thousand years.”
Origine: The Broken Kingdoms (2011), Chapter 5 “Family” (charcoal study) (p. 105)

“Mother always said that if one must do something unpleasant, one should do it wholeheartedly and not waste effort on regret.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Kingdom of Gods

Origine: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 23 (p. 563)

“Peace is meaningless without freedom.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Kingdom of Gods

Origine: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 20 (p. 514)

“Those with power would always find some way to exert it over those who didn’t.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Kingdom of Gods

Origine: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 19 (p. 494)

“Fear was like poison to mortals; it killed their rationality.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Kingdom of Gods

Origine: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 16 (p. 407)

“This was what I’d asked her to give me. I had no right to complain just because it wasn’t what I wanted to hear.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Kingdom of Gods

Origine: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 14 (p. 347)

“If they will not love me, fear is an acceptable substitute.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Kingdom of Gods

Origine: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 13 (p. 331)

“Magic is merely communication, after all.
Communication, and conduits.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Kingdom of Gods

Origine: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 13 (p. 325)

“Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Kingdom of Gods

Origine: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 12 (p. 308)

“It was the oldest of tricks, to sow dissension between groups that had common interests. Good for deflecting attention from greater mischief, too.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Kingdom of Gods

Origine: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 12 (p. 301)

“Unreasoning optimism is a fundamental element of childishness.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Kingdom of Gods

Origine: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 10 (p. 237)

“Well. Adolescence is all about making mistakes.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Kingdom of Gods

Origine: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 9 (p. 200)

“The child in her wanted to do as she pleased, cling to impossible hopes. The woman in her wanted to make sound decisions, succeed even if it meant sacrifice. The woman would win; that was inevitable. But the child would not go quietly.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Kingdom of Gods

Origine: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 7 (p. 173)

“There was no point in making myself suffer unnecessarily. As a mortal, there would be pain enough in my life, whether I sought it out or not.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Kingdom of Gods

Origine: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 5 (p. 119)

“Unconditional love: childhood’s greatest magic.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Kingdom of Gods

Origine: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 1 (p. 35)

“That was the way of things, after all. Children had to grow up. They did not always become what others wanted.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Kingdom of Gods

Origine: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 7 (p. 166)

“When things are bad, change is good, right? Change means things will get better.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Kingdom of Gods

Origine: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 1 (p. 19)

“We were all exposed to nothing but white dude fiction, occasionally young white women fiction, and if that’s how you’ve grown up, then that is what is normal.”

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N. K. Jemisin

Interviews
Origine: On how she once perceived fiction in “NK Jemisin: 'It’s easier to get a book set in black Africa published if you're white'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/02/nk-jemisin-its-easier-to-get-a-book-set-in-black-africa-published-if-youre-white in The Guardian (2020 May 2)

“Honor in safety, survival under threat. Necessity is the only law.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Stone Sky

Origine: The Stone Sky (2017), Chapter 9 “the desert, briefly, and you” (p. 231)

“Would’ve been nice if we could’ve all had normal, of course, but not enough people wanted to share. So now we all burn.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Stone Sky

Origine: The Stone Sky (2017), Chapter 7 “you’re planning ahead” (p. 170)

“You’re abbreviating heavily, not lying. That’s what you tell yourself.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Obelisk Gate

Origine: The Obelisk Gate (2016), Chapter 16 “you meet an old friend, again” (p. 293)

“Put people in a cage and they will devote themselves to escaping it, not cooperating with those who caged them.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Obelisk Gate

Origine: The Obelisk Gate (2016), Chapter 15 “Nassun, in rejection” (p. 270)

“It is surprising how refreshing this feels. Being judged by what you do, and not what you are.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Obelisk Gate

Origine: The Obelisk Gate (2016), Chapter 8 “you've been warned” (p. 127)

“The Leadership legends have the air of a myth concocted to justify their place in society.”

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N. K. Jemisin libro The Obelisk Gate

Origine: The Obelisk Gate (2016), Chapter 6 “you commit to the cause” (p. 91)