Tade Thompson | |
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Born | Tade Thompson London, United Kingdom |
Occupation | Writer, psychiatrist |
Nationality | Nigerian British |
Period | 2005–present |
Genre | Science fiction, Horror |
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Tade Thompson FRSL is a British-born Nigerian psychiatrist and writer of Yoruba descent. [1] He is best known for his 2016 science fiction novel Rosewater , which won a Nommo Award and an Arthur C. Clarke Award. [2] [3]
Thompson was born in London, England, to Yoruba parents. His family left the United Kingdom for Nigeria in 1976, when Thompson was seven. He grew up in Nigeria, where he studied medicine and social anthropology. He went on to specialise in psychiatry. He returned to the UK in 1998, where he has remained, except for a year spent working in Samoa. He now lives on the south coast of England. [4] [5] [3]
As well as being an author, Thompson also works full-time at St James' Hospital, Portsmouth, where he specializes in mental illnesses in people with physical problems. In July 2020, he told The Guardian that he could not imagine leaving medicine, saying: “The hospital work is a calling. I help people.” [6]
Thompson's novels and short stories have been critically well received, with critics commenting on their originality and breadth of vision. [9] His debut novel, Making Wolf, won the 2016 Kitschies Golden Tentacle Award. [10] He was a John W. Campbell Award finalist and has been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award, the BSFA Award, and the Nommo Award. [3] [4] [5] [11] [12] [13] [14] His second novel Rosewater, the first book in the Wormwood trilogy set in Nigeria, won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2019. [15] And his 2022 novella, Jackdaw, was described in the Financial Times as: "a metafictional dive into the life of Francis Bacon." [16]
In 2020, it was announced that The Murders of Molly Southbourne had been optioned for screen adaptation by production company Complete Fiction in collaboration with Netflix. [17]
In 2023, Thompson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. [18]
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