Estelle Faye | |
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| Born | 1 May 1978 |
| Occupation(s) | writer, actress, screenwriter |
Estelle Faye (born 1 May 1978) began her career as a French actor and screenwriter. Since 2009 she has been best known as a science fictio n and fantasy author, where her novels and short stories have won several awards.
After taking drama classes in Paris and San Francisco, [1] Estelle Faye turned her attention to directing and writing sceince fiction, horror and fantasy. [2] [3] In 2008, she graduated from the screenwriting section of Femis. [4] [5] She has written several short films, one of which won the Prix France Télévisions.
She started to write fantasy fiction in 2008 after responding to a call by Calmann-Lévy to propose stories for an anthology around the theme of dragons. [6] She published her first adult novel Porcelaine. [6] In 2017 she published a dark fantasy novel Les seigneurs de Boyen, in which monsters, magic, sorcery are invoked in a tale questionning the making of real away from circles of power. The novel also features various magical creatures, among which a changeling, a hermaphrodite, a monk of uncertain sexual status, a lesbian, a vulture, all creatures whose differences sexual or magical coerce and are attracted to each other, revelling a part of the revolution to be. [7]
In 2018 she published a feminist and anarchist novel, Les nuages de Magellan. [8]
Her novel L'arpenteuse des rêves published in 2021 is an ecological tale [9] inspired by the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and evolves around themes of climatic change. [6]
Her books are illustrated by Amandine Labarre. [10]
Since 2019, she has been taking part in the writing podcast Procrastination with Lionel Davoust and Mélanie Fazi. [11]
She is a member of the Charte des auteurs et illustrateurs jeunesse. [12] She intervened in feminist and gender themed conferences on science fiction. [13]
Along with everal authors she published a letter of support for Stéphanie Nicot after her eviction as director of Les Imaginales by the Épinal town hall, [14] among which ïan Larue, Silène Edgar, Sylvie Lainé, Robin Hobb, Sara Doke , Sylvie Denis, Lucie Chenu , Sarah Buschmann , Charlotte Bousquet and Anne Besson . [15]
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