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George R.R. Martin

Nascido: September 20, 1948 – Bayonne, New Jersey, United States

George R.R. Martin is an American novelist and screenwriter known for epic fantasy, science fiction, and television writing. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, adapted as HBO’s Game of Thrones, and has won multiple Hugo, Nebula, and Emmy Awards, with his books selling tens of millions of copies worldwide.

Biografia e Jornada do Autor

George R.R. Martin was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, in 1948, the son of a longshoreman, and began writing almost as soon as he could imagine worlds, first selling monster stories to neighborhood children for pennies. At Northwestern University he studied journalism, earning a B.S. in 1970 and an M.S. in 1971, and his first professional fiction sale, “The Hero,” came at the same moment his adult career was beginning. After alternative service with VISTA, chess work, and teaching in Iowa, he became a full-time writer in 1979, carrying with him both a reporter’s instinct for detail and a lifelong attachment to fandom. ((https://www.georgerrmartin.com/life/))

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The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams
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They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to middle Earth
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But you have to keep trying new things, if you’re to be worth reading at all
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Diversity is a blessing, whether we’re talking about fiction or criticism
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"George R.R. Martin is by far the best of those who work in the grand epic-fantasy tradition"

TIME

"George R.R. Martin's brilliance in evoking atmosphere through description is an enduring hallmark of his fiction"

Los Angeles Times

"Long live George R.R. Martin, a literary dervish enthralled by complicated characters and vivid language"

The New York Times

"George R.R. Martin may not rival Tolkien or Robert Jordan, but he ranks with accomplished medievalists of fantasy"

Publishers Weekly

"George R.R. Martin is a writer like no other"

The Guardian

"George R.R. Martin's skill as a crafter of narrative exceeds that of almost any literary novelist writing today"

TIME

"George R.R. Martin earned his following the hard way, by word of mouth, by hooking his characters into readers' psyches"

Salon

"George R.R. Martin is the kind of writer who needs to be read with an A Song of Ice and Fire encyclopedia at hand"

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