S. A. Chakraborty

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S. A. Chakraborty
Born (1985-12-07) December 7, 1985 (age 38) [1]
New Jersey, U.S.
Period2017–present
Genre Historical fantasy
Notable works
Children1
Website
sachakraborty.com

Shannon A. Chakraborty [2] (born December 7, 1985) is an American historical fantasy and speculative fiction writer based in Queens, New York, best known for The Daevabad Trilogy . [3]

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Literary career

Chakraborty's debut novel, The City of Brass , was highly acclaimed when it debuted in 2017 and was a finalist for several science fiction and fantasy awards, including the Crawford Award, Compton Crook Award, Locus Award, British Fantasy Award, World Fantasy Award. It won the Booknest.eu award for best Debut Novel. The sequel, The Kingdom of Copper , was published to critical acclaim in 2019, and later that year Chakraborty was named a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award. [4] The final installment in the Daevabad trilogy, The Empire of Gold, was released in June 2020. TheRiver of Silver: Tales From the Daevabad Trilogy, a collection of stories taking place in Daevabad, came out in 2022. [5]

Chakraborty's next trilogy, pitched as Ocean's Eleven meets Pirates of the Caribbean , is set in the 12th-century Indian Ocean. In the series debut, The Adventures of Amina al-Sarafi, an infamous retired pirate returns to her old profession when she is offered the chance to right a wrong from her past and gain a fabled treasure. It was published in February 2023 by Harper Voyager. [6] [7]

Adaptations

In May 2020, it was announced that Complete Fiction, a film and television company, would be developing The Daevabad Trilogy as a series for Netflix. [8]

Personal life

Chakraborty was born and raised in New Jersey to Catholic parents [9] and converted to Islam in her teens; [10] Chakraborty is her married name. [11] She originally intended to be a historian specializing in the Middle East; however, the financial crisis around 2008 derailed those plans, so while she worked to support herself and her husband, she also kept herself occupied by writing what she called "historical fan fiction" that later became her first novel, The City of Brass. [6]

She lives in New Jersey with her husband and daughter. [2]

Bibliography

The Daevabad Trilogy

  1. The City of Brass (2017) ISBN   978-0062678119
  2. The Kingdom of Copper (2019) ISBN   978-0062678133
  3. The Empire of Gold (2020) ISBN   978-0008239497

Amina al-Sirafi

  1. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (2023) ISBN   978-0062963505

Short fiction

  1. "The Djinn" (2011) (as S. Ali), published in Expanded Horizons issue 29, June 2011
  2. "Yerushalom" (2011) (as S. Ali), published in Crossed Genres issue 31, July 2011
  3. "Bilaadi" (2012) (as S. Ali), published in The Future Fire February 2012

Collections

  1. The River of Silver: Tales From the Daevabad Trilogy (2022) ISBN   978-0063093737

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