Tade Thompson

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Tade Thompson

FRSL
Born1969 (age 56–57)
London, United Kingdom
OccupationWriter, psychiatrist
Period2005–present
GenreScience fiction, Horror
Notable work
Rosewater

The Murders of Molly Southbourne

Notable awards
Arthur C. Clarke Award

Nommo Award

Tade Thompson FRSL is a British 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]

Life and career

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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.[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.”[4]

Thompson is also an illustrator and artist.[5][6]

Reception and awards

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Thompson's novels and short stories have been critically well received, with critics commenting on their originality and breadth of vision.[7] Thompson was a John W. Campbell Award finalist and has been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award, the BSFA Award, and the Nommo Award. His novel Rosewater won the 2019 Arthur C. Clarke Award, making Thompson the second writer of black African heritage to win the prize.[8]

In 2023, Thompson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[9]

Awards and honors
Year Work Award Category Result Ref.
2016 "The Apologists" BSFA Award Short Fiction Shortlisted [10]
2017 The Last Pantheon[a] Nommo Award Novella Shortlisted [11]
The Murders of Molly Southbourne BSFA Award Shorter Fiction Shortlisted [12]
Shirley Jackson Award Novella Nominated [13]
Rosewater Campbell Memorial Award — Finalist [14]
Nommo Award Novel Won [11]
2018 The Murders of Molly Southbourne British Fantasy Award Novella Shortlisted [15]
Nommo Award Novella Won [16]
Rosewater BSFA Award Novel Shortlisted [17]
2019 Rosewater Arthur C. Clarke Award — Won [2]
The Rosewater Insurrection BSFA Award Novel Shortlisted [18]
The Survival of Molly Southbourne BSFA Award Shorter Fiction Shortlisted [18]
"Yard Dog" Theodore Sturgeon Award — Finalist [19]
2020 The Murders of Molly Southbourne Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign Short Fiction Won [20]
The Rosewater Insurrection Locus Award[b] Science Fiction Novel Finalist [21]
Nommo Award Novel Shortlisted [22]
The Rosewater Redemption Dragon Award Science Fiction Novel Nominated [23]
Locus Award[b] Science Fiction Novel Finalist [21]
Philip K. Dick Award — Nominated [24]
The Survival of Molly Southbourne British Fantasy Award Novella Shortlisted [25]
Ignyte Award Novella Finalist [26]
The Wormwood Trilogy Hugo Award Series Finalist [27]
2022 Far from the Light of Heaven Nommo Award Novel Shortlisted [28]
Philip K. Dick Award — Finalist [29]
2023 The Legacy of Molly Southbourne Philip K. Dick Award — Special Citation [30]

Bibliography

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Novels

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The Wormwood Trilogy

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Stand-alone

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Novellas and short fiction

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The Molly Southbourne Trilogy

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Stand-alone

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  • "The McMahon Institute for Unquiet Minds" (2005)
  • "Slip Road" (2009)
  • "Shadow" (2010)
  • "Notes from Gethsemane" (2012)
  • "Bicycle Girl" (2013)
  • "One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sunlight" (2013)
  • "Slip Road" (revised) (2014)
  • "Budo or, The Flying Orchid" (2014)
  • "The Monkey House" (2015)
  • "Child, Funeral, Thief, Death" (2015)
  • "The Last Pantheon" (2015) (with Nick Wood)
  • "Decommissioned" (2016)
  • "Household Gods" (2016)
  • "The Apologists" (2016)
  • "Gnaw" (2016)
  • "Bootblack" (2017)
  • "Yard Dog" (2018)
  • "Jackdaw" (2022)

Poems

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  • "Komolafe" (2013)

Essays

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  • The Last Word on the Last Pantheon (2016) (with Nick Wood)
  • Please Stop Talking about the 'Rise' of African Science Fiction (2018)

Contributor

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  • "Wherefore, Nuncle?" in Encounters with James Baldwin: Celebrating 100 Years (2024)

Other work

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Notes

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  1. ^ Co-authored with Nick Wood
  2. ^ a b The Rosewater Insurrection and The Rosewater Redemption were jointly nominated for the 2020 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

References

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  • Tade Thompson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  • Quotations related to Tade Thompson at Wikiquote

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