Vile Lady Villains: Fantasy is political

av Samvirkelaget Rosa Bøker

Are fantasy books political? YES!

Join the discussion on Tuesday Oct. 20th at 7pm when author Danai Christopoulou meets Camilla Holm Soelseth for a conversation on vile lady villains, queer horromantasy, marginalized authors, the dissolution of power structures, fantastic and speculative fiction as places for the imagination as necessary infrastructure for the political and much more!

You don't want to miss this!

In english.

About:

Danai Christopoulou is a Greek author raised on a diet of myths and tragedies. Danai's writing has appeared in Glamour, Marie Claire, khoréo, Fusion Fragment, Flame Tree Press, Writer's Digest and more, nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for a Best of Small Fictions, and featured on the Nebula and Stoker recommended reading lists. Vile Lady Villains is Danai's debut novel. Growing up amid the ancient ruins of Athens, Greece, Danai currently haunts a forest in Sweden.

Camilla Holm Soelseth is a huge sci-fi and fantasy nerd, a researcher (and destroyer) and cultural engineer with a PhD in library and information science (digital humanities). Her book on networked shared reading with a specific focus on romantasy, written with two colleagues from the US and Canada, will be published by Cambridge University Press late this fall.

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