Jeff VanderMeer
Дата рождения: July 07, 1968 – Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, United States
Jeff VanderMeer is an American novelist, editor, and critic known for ecological speculative fiction and the New Weird. His best-known books include Annihilation and the Southern Reach series, as well as Borne. Annihilation won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards, was translated into 35 languages, and inspired a film adaptation.
Биография и Путь Автора
Jeff VanderMeer grew up in the Fiji Islands, later spent significant time traveling through Asia, Africa, and Europe, and then returned to the United States with a sensibility already marked by dislocation, biodiversity, and the feeling that landscapes could be as unsettling as characters. He has lived in Florida since middle school, attended the University of Florida, and moved to Tallahassee in 1992. He began writing young, started publishing early, and, before his mainstream breakthrough, built experience through poetry, short fiction, editing, and small-press activity, including the Ministry of Whimsy. Those early years established the two tracks that would define him: the novelist of the strange and the editor-advocate for adventurous fiction. ((https://www.jeffvandermeer.com/about))
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"His name is Jeff VanderMeer, he's from Tallahassee, Florida, and he's the King of Weird Fiction"
— The New Yorker ((
"Perhaps the last great work to truly understand this conflict, and to exploit it, was Jeff VanderMeer's compelling, creepy Southern Reach trilogy"
— The Washington Post ((
"I'm loving The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. Creepy and fascinating"
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"Jeff VanderMeer is a poet laureate of weird fiction, the speculative subgenre that traffics in the Gothic and unknowable"
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"Jeff VanderMeer may visit familiar alien-invasion territory, but his story of biological research - the first in a trilogy - enters the realm of real horror"
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"There might be no contemporary writer operating on a weirder wavelength than Jeff VanderMeer"
— Los Angeles Times ((
"In much of Jeff VanderMeer's work, a kind of radiance lies beating beneath the surface of the words"
— Peter Straub ((
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