Nina Allan
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Nina Allan at Edge Lit 5 2016
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| Born | May 27, 1966 |
| Alma mater | University of Exeter and Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
| Genre | Speculative fiction |
| Notable works | The Silver Wind and The Harlequin |
| Notable awards | Aeon Award 2007, BSFA Best Short Fiction 2013 Grand Prix de L'Imaginaire 2014 and the Novella Award 2015 |
| Partner | Christopher Priest |
| Website | |
| The Spider's House | |
Nina Allan is a British writer of speculative fiction. She has published four collections of short stories, a novella and a novel. Her stories have appeared in the magazines Interzone, Black Static and Crimewave and have been nominated for or won a number of awards, including the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire and the British Science Fiction Association Award.
Allan was born in Whitechapel, in the East End of London, and grew up in the Midlands and in West Sussex. She studied Russian language and literature at the University of Reading and the University of Exeter, and then did an MLitt at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
After leaving Oxford she worked as a buyer for an independent chain of record stores based in Exeter, and then as a bookseller in London. Her first published story appeared in the British Fantasy Society journal Dark Horizons in 2002. She lives in the Taw Valley area of North Devon.
Her column Nina Allan's Time Pieces appears in Interzone (magazine).
Nina Allan's stories have appeared in various publications and six "Best of" collections:
She has said that all her short fiction to date has been, "a kind of apprenticeship in novel-writing". Her first novel is The Race, which uses the town of Hastings for its landscape, where she was living for most of the time she was writing it.
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