Jo Walton was born on 1964 and is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet.
17 Facts About Jo Walton
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Jo Walton is best known for the fantasy novel Among Others, which won the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2012, and Tooth and Claw, a Victorian era novel with dragons which won the World Fantasy Award in 2004.
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Jo Walton is known for her non-fiction, including book reviews and SF commentary in the magazine Tor.
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Jo Walton was born in 1964 in Aberdare, a town in the Cynon Valley of Wales.
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Jo Walton lived for a year in Cardiff, went to Howell's School Llandaff and finished her education at Oswestry School in Shropshire and at the University of Lancaster.
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Jo Walton lived in London for two years and lived in Lancaster until 1997.
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Jo Walton then moved to Swansea, where she lived until she moved to Canada in 2002.
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Jo Walton has been writing since she was 13, but her first novel was not published until 2000.
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Jo Walton was active in online science fiction fandom, especially in the Usenet groups rec.
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Jo Walton won the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002.
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In 2008 Jo Walton celebrated this day by posting several chapters of an unfinished sequel to Tooth and Claw, Those Who Favor Fire.
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In 2008, Jo Walton began writing an online column for Tor.
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Jo Walton wrote a series of articles revisiting the Hugo award nominees for each year from 1953 to 2000, which were later collected as An Informal History of the Hugos.
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Jo Walton's 2020 novel Or What You Will is a meta-fictional novel about immortality and creativity, featuring an ageing fantasy novelist writing a book set in renaissance Florence.
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In November 2022, Jo Walton released her original audio drama Heart's Home, based on a Welsh folk tale, with Odyssey Theatre as part of The Other Path podcast.
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Jo Walton moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, after her first novel was published.
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Jo Walton has one child, a son, Alexander, born 1990.