Английская Википедия:Gemma Files
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Gemma Files is a Canadian horror writer, journalist, and film critic. Her short story, "The Emperor's Old Bones", won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Short Story of 1999. Five of her short stories were adapted for the television series The Hunger.
Biography
Gemma Files was born in 1968 in London, England, to the actors Elva Mai Hoover and Gary Files.Шаблон:Citation needed Her family relocated to Toronto in 1969, where she resides today.Шаблон:Citation needed Files graduated from Ryerson Polytechnic University in 1991 with a degree in journalism. She published her first horror fiction, "Fly-by-Night" in 1993.[1] Various freelance assignments eventually led to a continuing position with entertainment periodical Eye Weekly, where she gained local repute as an insightful commentator on the horror genre, independent films and Canadian cinema. Шаблон:Citation needed She was listed by Cameron Bailey of NOW as one of the Top 10 Coolest People in Canadian Cinema for 1996.Шаблон:Citation needed She has also written reviews for www.film.com and for the Canadian horror magazine Rue Morgue.Шаблон:Citation needed
In 2000 her award-winning story "The Emperor's Old Bones" was reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection (ed. Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow). In 2010 her Shirley Jackson Award-nominated novelette "each thing i show you is a piece of my death" was reprinted in The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Two (ed. Ellen Datlow). Шаблон:Citation needed Her short story "The Jacaranda Smile" was also a 2009 Shirley Jackson Award finalist.[2] Her first novel, A Book of Tongues, won the 2010 Black Quill award for "Best Small Press Chill" from Dark Scribe Magazine; it was followed by the sequels A Rope of Thorns (2011) and A Tree of Bones (2012), together comprising "The Hexslinger Series". A Rope of Thorns was considered a "powerful sequel" to A Book of Tongues by Publishers Weekly.[3]
Her book, We Will All Go Down Together (about a coven of witches and changelings), was given a favorable review by NPR.[4]
Her novel Experimental Film (2015) won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel and the Sunburst Award for Best Canadian Speculative Fiction (Novel) in 2016.
Files was married in 2002 to science fiction and fantasy author Stephen J. Barringer (with whom she co-wrote "'each thing i show you is a piece of my death"").[1] They have one son, Callum Jacob, born in September 2004.Шаблон:Citation needed
Bibliography
- Kissing Carrion: Stories, Prime Books/Wildside Press, 2003. Шаблон:ISBN
- The Worm in Every Heart: Stories, Prime Books/Wildside Press, 2004. Шаблон:ISBN
- The Hexslinger series:
- A Book of Tongues: Volume One in the Hexslinger Series, ChiZne Publications, 2010. Шаблон:ISBN.
- A Rope of Thorns: Volume Two in the Hexslinger Series, ChiZine Publications, 2011. Шаблон:ISBN.
- A Tree of Bones: Volume Three in the Hexslinger Series, ChiZine Publications, 2012. Шаблон:ISBN
- The Hexslinger Omnibus (eBook Edition), ChiZine Publications, 2013, ASIN B00EXOT72Q (contains three new short stories)
- We Will All Go Down Together: Stories of the Five-Family Coven, ChiZine Publications, 2014 Шаблон:ISBN
- Experimental Film, ChiZine Publications, 2015 Шаблон:ISBN[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
- Drawn Up from Deep Places, JournalStone, 2018.
- In That Endlessness, Our End, Grimscribe Press, 2021.[12]
- Dark Is Better, Trepidatio Publishing, 2023.
- Blood From The Air, Grimscribe Press, 2023.
References
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