“The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.”
Source: Brown Girl in the Ring
Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor. She currently lives and teaches in Riverside, California. Her novels and short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling.
Hopkinson has edited two fiction anthologies . She was the co-editor with Uppinder Mehan for the anthology So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future, and with Geoff Ryman for Tesseracts 9.
Hopkinson defended George Elliott Clarke's novel Whylah Falls on the CBC's Canada Reads 2002. She was the curator of Six Impossible Things, an audio series of Canadian fantastical fiction on CBC Radio One.
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“The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.”
Source: Brown Girl in the Ring
Source: Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Chapter 12 (p. 220)
Source: Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Chapter 13 (p. 232)
Source: Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Chapter 13 (p. 230)
Source: Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Chapter 4 (p. 62)
Section 4 (p. 217)
Midnight Robber (2000)
On the author having the right to reveal anything personal that’s significant to them in “Interview: Nalo Hopkinson” http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/interview-nalo-hopkinson/ in Lightspeed (June 2013)
Source: The Salt Roads (2003), p. 377
And those of us who live in racialized bodies feel that lack, we feel that erasure, so yes, there was something quite deliberate in my doing half the speech as an alien.
On race still being a taboo topic in the world of science fiction in “Interview: Nalo Hopkinson” http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/interview-nalo-hopkinson/ in Lightspeed (June 2013)
“Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”
Source: Sister Mine
“Children,” I said to her. “For the first little while, they not exactly human, you don’t find?”
Source: The New Moon's Arms (2007), Chapter 4 (p. 192)
“Come in peace to my home, Tan-Tan. And when you go, go in friendship.”
Section 4 (p. 179)
Midnight Robber (2000)
Section 2 (p. 104)
Midnight Robber (2000)
Source: The New Moon's Arms (2007), Chapter 4 (p. 191)
“Just being Tan-Tan, sometimes good, sometimes bad, mostly just getting by like everybody else.”
Section 4 (p. 326)
Midnight Robber (2000)
Section 4 (p. 222)
Midnight Robber (2000)
Source: The New Moon's Arms (2007), Chapter 1 (p. 40)
“She was hiding in the best possible way, masquerading as herself!”
Section 4 (p. 314)
Midnight Robber (2000)
On her comparing of science fiction and fantasy in “Nalo Hopkinson: Multiplicity” https://www.locusmag.com/2007/Issue06_Hopkinson.html in LocusMag (June 2007)