Estelle Faye

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Estelle Faye
Imaginales 2016 - Estelle Faye 1.jpg
Born(1978-05-01)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 fiction and fantasy author, where her novels and short stories have won several awards.

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Biography

With Jo Walton at the Imaginales in 2017. Jo Walton () - Imaginales 2017.jpg
With Jo Walton at the Imaginales in 2017.

After taking drama classes in Paris and San Francisco, [1] Estelle Faye turned her attention to directing and writing science 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,  [ fr ] Sylvie Lainé, Robin Hobb, Sara Doke, Sylvie Denis, Lucie Chenu, Sarah Buschmann  [ fr ], Charlotte Bousquet  [ fr ] and Anne Besson  [ fr ]. [15]

Awards

Works

Drama

Novels

La Voie des oracles serie

  • Thya, Scrineo, 2014
  • Enoch, Scrineo, 2015
  • Aylus, Scrineo, 2016

Bohen serie

  • Les Seigneurs de Bohen, 2017 [7]
  • Les révoltés de Bohen, 2019

Les Magies de l'archipel serie

  • Arcadia, Nathan, 2022
  • La cité mirage, Nathan, 2023
  • L'ile pirate, Nathan, 2023
  • Faye, Estelle; Sanoe (2024). Atlantis. Les magies de l'archipel (in French). Paris: Nathan. ISBN   978-2-09-503077-3.

Stand alone novels

Anthologies

Filmography

Actress

  • 2004 : La Nourrice : the revolted women
  • 2005 : Clara Sheller  : the seller of the travel agency

Screenwriter

  • 2007 : Carcasse d'Ismaël El Maoula El Iraki
  • 2017 : Tout ce qui grouille sous la mer with Fabien Legeron

Bibliography

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