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| Born | January 22, 1962 |
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Alison Louise Spedding (born 22 January 1962) is a British anthropologist and fantasy author, latterly also known as Alison Spedding Pallet. [1]
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Alison Spedding | |
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| Born | January 22, 1962 |
| Other names | Alicia Céspedes Ballet |
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Alison Louise Spedding (born 22 January 1962) is a British anthropologist and fantasy author, latterly also known as Alison Spedding Pallet. [1]
Alison Spedding is the daughter of Ken Spedding and Maureen Reybould. [2] She was brought up in Maidenhead and Reading. She studied archaeology and anthropology and later philosophy at King's College, Cambridge, receiving her BA degree in 1982. She received a PhD from the London School of Economics in 1989. [3]
She wrote a trilogy of fantasy novels, A Walk in the Dark, [3] set approximately in the time of Alexander the Great. In the novels, Alexander dies, and the female protagonist, Aleizon Ailix Ayndra, goes on to fulfil Alexander's destiny.
In 1988, [2] and the sentence, which had never reach final status, was quashed by Bolivia's Constitutional Court after she had served 26 months. [1]
She went on to publish three further novels in Spanish, El viento de la cordillera (2001), the science fiction, anarcho-feminist, novel De cuando en cuando Saturnina (2004), and Catre de fierro in 2015. She also had a play, Un gato en el tejar, published under the pseudonym Alicia Céspedes Ballet, and published further academic works, Kausachun-Coca (2004) and Religión en los Andes: Extirpación de idolatrías y modernidad de la fe andina (2008), under her own name.
As of 2022, Spedding was still living in Bolivia, an active member of an association of coca farmers, and teaching at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés. [4]
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(Alison Spedding Pallet) The Constitutional Court ... REVOKES the Sentence ... and declares the appeal filed JUSTIFIED... Likewise, it orders the Habeas Corpus Court to proceed with the assessment of damages
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