Laurence Suhner

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Laurence Suhner
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Laurence Suhner (2012)
Born Geneva, Switzerland
LanguageFrench
Genre Science fiction
Website
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Laurence Suhner (born 1 May 1968) is a Swiss science fiction writer and graphic artist.

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Born in Geneva, Suhner studied Indian dance and music and attended four semesters of physics courses at the University of Geneva. [1] She published several graphic novels in the 1980s and 2000s, and started writing prose science fiction in 2006.

Her first novel, the hard SF planetary romance Vestiges, was published in 2012. It received the 2013 Futuriales Révélation Adulte award, [2] as well as the 2013 Prix Bob Morane for best French language novel. [3] The novel is the first of the QuanTika trilogy, [1] of which the second volume, L'ouvreur des chemins, was published in 2013 and the third, Origines, in 2015.

Suhner teaches creative writing at the University of Geneva. [4]

Works

Novel
  1. Vestiges. L'Atalante. 2012. ISBN   978-2841725892.
  2. L'ouvreur des chemins. L'Atalante. 2013. ISBN   9782841726516.
  3. Origines. L'Atalante. 2015. ISBN   9782841727100.
Novellas
Comics
Short stories

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References

  1. 1 2 Duplan, Antoine (26 July 2012). "Laurence Suhner entonne un raga quantique". Le Temps . Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  2. "Et voici les lauréats 2013 !". Futuriales. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  3. "12/01/2014". Prix Bob Morane. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  4. 1 2 Suhner, Laurence (2017-02-22). "The terminator". Nature. 542 (7642): 512. Bibcode:2017Natur.542..512S. doi: 10.1038/542512a .
  5. "Laurence Suhner, dans le froid des étoiles" (in French). Retrieved 2018-01-14.