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ABOUT
Lavie Tidhar grew up on a kibbutz in Israel and has since lived in South Africa, the UK, Vanuatu and Laos. He is currently resident back in London. He won the World Fantasy Award in 2012 for Best Novel, for Osama, and the British Fantasy Award 2012 for Best Novella, for Gorel & The Pot-Bellied God. He also won the BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction, for his work on the World SF Blog. He has been nominated, variously, for a World Fantasy Award, BSFA Award, a Sidewise Award, Israel’s Geffen Award, the Airship Award, and the Sturgeon and Campbell Awards.
“Bears comparison with the best of Philip K Dick’s paranoid, alternate-history fantasies. It’s beautifully written and undeniably powerful.” – The Financial Times on Osama.
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Lavie is represented by the Zeno Literary Agency.
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The Bookman is an amazingly good book. If it’s steampunk, it’s the best I’ve read in years. Lavie, what happened to the dreads? Cheers, Jim
Dear Lavie,
I’m the son of QUILLER (Adam Hall) and wanted to say hello.
I understand you were influenced by Q…
Best wishes.
JP
http://www.quiller.net
Thanks, JP – it’s good to hear from you!
I’m a big Quiller fan (my favourite of the novels is The Warsaw Document) and the novella An Occupation of Angels is both directly inspired by, and dedicated to, Adam Hall and Quiller.
While taking a break (of course longer than I intended), from studying Japanese i found your site through the long essay you wrote about the Bahai Faith and sf connection. I am still searching for Bahai inspired fiction, and have only run across one fantasy writer. There are 2 more recent SF novels dealing with religion. I am working on something small, but its a slow go, because I want to experience as close to the center as I can..I mean how can one truly write about something that one has never experienced? From all that I have read none of the fiction authors ring true for me with their own personal religious experiences The assumption of course is that for one of the non-Christian religious rivers of inspiration, one must experience “enlightenment (whatever that is) before one can write about it. Your essay picked several of the most celebrated SF works dealing with religion by internationally recognized writers, but I can’t help but wonder if there are alot of “minor” Christian sF writers out there achieving enough recognition to pay the rent. In other Christian fiction that I read once long ago, it isn’t necessary “to arrive” (be saved) and then look back in order to write a good tale. There is plenty of opportunities in the journey… So, at least this is my opinion in my aproach to my own writing, it’s all in the journey…
regards from Japan
Lavie, you are like the eighth wonder of the world of writing. You’ve been published with the toughest places not just once, but countless times! Congrats on your recent story, The Smell of Orange Groves.
Great fan of your work. Have written a novel with a similar theme. I wondered if you could tell me who your UK literary agent is, please?
Hi Justin!
It’s actually listed above – Zeno Literary Agency, John Parker and John Berlyne, http://zenoagency.com – hope that helps!
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