Sabrina Calvo | |
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| Born | David Calvo September 19, 1974 |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Writer |
Sabrina Calvo (born 19 September 1974) is a French author of transfeminist science fiction, illustrator and games writer.
Calvo identifies as a transgender person, with her work published as "David Calvo" before 2018. [1] [2]
Sabrina Calvo was born on 19 September 1974 in Marseille. [3] [4] She came out as trans in 2017 in the Mauvais Genre programme at the Utopiales festival. [5] She lives between Paris and Montreal. [5]
Sabrina Calvo is a writer and also a performance artist, and has collaborated with artists including Jeff Mills at the Musée du Louvre in 2015. [6] She has given talks and round tables at the Chroniques Digital Arts Biennial, [7] Mutek, [8] Sonic Protest, [9] Étonnants Voyageurs , [10] les Utopiales, les Imaginales, les Intergalactiques and la Maison de la poésie [11] , among others.
In 2021 she spoke out in favour of reforming sexist and toxic behaviour in the world of fantasy literature publishing. [12] [13]
Sabrina Calvo co-wrote the virtual reality drama 7 Lives, directed by Jan Kounen. 7 Lives is part of the 2019 VR selection at the Tribeca Film Festival. [14] [15]
Her first novel, Délius, une chanson d'été, [16] was published in 1997. The book refers in particular to the composer Frederick Delius, and the title is taken from a song by Kate Bush, Delius (Song of Summer), which appeared on the album Never for Ever, [17] [18]
In 2004, based on a script by Sabrina Calvo, Thomas Azuélos drew Télémaque, [19] in which the author's dreamlike world’ is expressed. In 2006, the duo published Akhénaton, co-written with Thomas Azuélos, tackling the subject of transidentity. ActuaBD described the work as [20]
A radical album, with a minimalist and unbridled style, to be reserved for fans of absolute modernity
In 2015, Sabrina Calvo published Sous la Colline, a transfeminist [21] urban fantasy novel exploring the intimate topography of Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse in Marseille and exploiting the myths of the city. [22] [23] Her counter-dystopian novel Toxoplasma, featuring an anti-capitalist commune in Montreal [24] and questioning gender identities, won the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire in 2018. [25] [26]
She continued her exploration of these themes with Melmoth Furieux, an uchronia published in 2021, featuring an update of the Paris Commune in an alternative, policed and authoritarian present. [22] [27] In this novel, she takes her inspiration from Eulalie Papavoine, a dressmaker and ambulance driver during the Paris Commune, for the book's main character and narrator named Fi. Fi is a seamstress from Belleville whose brother, a Disney employee, set himself on fire during the inauguration of Disneyland in 1992, and who joins a self-managed commune in Belleville to organise the revolt against the militia. The book's title is a reference to Balzac's short story Melmoth réconcilié and Charles Robert Maturin's novel Melmoth ou l'Homme errant. [28] [29]
Her novels, often classified as science fiction, explore the geographical worlds of cities such as Marseille, Paris and Montreal, in a dystopian, dreamlike universe inspired by maps of places and revolutionary historical events from an anti-capitalist, anarchist and transfeminist perspective, at the crossroads between the genres of cyber punk and urban fantasy. [23] [30] [31] She is cited as one of the emblematic authors of lesbian literature. [32]
Sabrina Calvo's novels and productions have won awards. Her novel Wonderful won the 2002 Prix Julia-Verlanger . [33] Sous la Colline won the 2016 Prix Bob-Morane , and Toxoplasma won the 2018 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire [26] and the Prix Rosny aîné the same year. [2]
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