1. Naomi Novik was born on 1973 and is an American author of speculative fiction.
15 Facts About Naomi Novik
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Naomi Novik is known for the Temeraire series, an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars involving dragons, and her Scholomance fantasy series.
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Naomi Novik is a second-generation American; her father's family were Lithuanian Jews, and her mother's family were Polish Catholics.
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Naomi Novik received a bachelor's degree in English literature at Brown University and holds a master's degree in computer science from Columbia University.
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Naomi Novik participated in the design and development of the computer game Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide, until she discovered that she preferred writing over game design.
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In September 2007, Novik was awarded the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer for best new science fiction writer of 2006.
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In 2015, Naomi Novik published Uprooted, a standalone novel "set in a fantasy world inspired by the Kingdom of Poland".
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In 2016, Naomi Novik published "Spinning Silver", a short story retelling the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale, in the fantasy anthology The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales.
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In 2020, Naomi Novik published A Deadly Education, the first in a trilogy set in the Scholomance, the retelling of folklore about a school of black magic.
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Naomi Novik later apologized for "evok[ing] a racist stereotype" about Afro-textured hair.
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On September 17,2024, Naomi Novik published Buried Deep and Other Stories, a collection of previously published and new short stories.
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Naomi Novik helped to organize the Organization for Transformative Works, a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of fan-media including fan fiction, fan videos, and real-person fiction.
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Naomi Novik was a co-founder of Archive of Our Own, a project of OTW that began in 2007 to create an online archive of fan fiction.
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At the 2019 Hugo Award ceremony, AO3 won the award for Best Related Work; Naomi Novik accepted the prize on behalf of all AO3's creators and readers.
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Naomi Novik has won the British Fantasy, Locus, Mythopoeic and Nebula Awards, and received nominations for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.