Paolo Bacigalupi
Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi (Paonia, Colorado, August 6, 1972 –) is an American science fiction and fantasy author, whose best-known work is the internationally acclaimed dystopian novel The Wind Up Girl. In addition to hard-line science fiction, he also likes to write youth novels, of which the most well-known is his novel Shipbreakers, which also has a dark atmosphere.
Bibliography
Novels
The Windup Girl (2009, Night Shade Books; Hungarian: 2012, Ad Astra)
Ship Breaker (Hajóbontók, 2010, Little Brown and Company; Hungarian: 2013, Ad Astra)
The Drowned Cities (2012, Little Brown and Company)
Zombie Baseball Beatdown (2013, Little Brown and Company)
The Doubt Factory (2014, Little Brown and Company; Hungarian: 2015, GABO)
The Water Knife (A vízvadász, 2015, Knoph; Hungarian: 2016, GABO)
Short stories
The Alchemist (Subterranean Press, 2011) with J.K. Drummond.
Short stories
"Pocketful of Dharma" (1999)
"The Fluted Girl" (2003)
"The People of Sand and Slag" (2004)
"The Passover" (2004)
"The Calorie Man" (2005)
"The Tamarisk Hunter" (2006)
"Pop Squad" (2006)
"Yellow Card Man" (2006)
"Softer" (2007)
"Small Offerings" (2007)
"Pump Six" (2008)
"The Gambler" (2008)
"Moriabe's Children" (2014)
"Shooting the Apocalypse" (2014)
"A Hot Day's Night" (2015)
Short story volumes
Pump Six and Other Stories (Night Shade Books, 2008)
Audiobook
The Alchemist and The Executioness (2010) with Tobias Buckel.
Hungarian
The Wind Up Girl; translation Norbert Horváth; Ad Astra, Bp., 2012
Ship breakers; translation Norbert Horváth; Ad Astra, Bp., 2013
The Doubt Factory; translation Norbert Horváth; Gabo, Bp., 2015
The water hunter; translation Norbert Horváth; Gabo, Bp., 2016
Awards and Recognition
The Wind Up Girl
Hugo Award: September 2010 (jointly with China Miéville's novel The City & the City)
Nebula Award: May 2010
John W. Campbell Memorial Award: 2010
Szeiun Award: 2012 (Japanese translated version)
Kurd-Laßwitz Prize: 2012 (German version)
Compton Crook Award: 2010
Locus Award: 2010 (best debut novel category)
Ship breakers
Michael L. Printz Award and the Locus Award in the Young Adult Novel category.
Notes
More information
The author's website
Brief biography of the writer
Author's profile on Goodreads
The writer's profile on Moly.hu
