Kim Stanley Robinson

1952 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

genre: science fiction

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Boston University, University of California, San Diego, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences

occupation: novelist, writer, science fiction writer

award received: Nebula Award for Best Novella, John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Locus Award for Best Novella, BSFA Award for Best Novel, Nebula Award for Best Novel, Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Hugo Award for Best Novel, Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Novel, Seiun Award for Best Translated Novel, Locus Award for Best First Novel, Premio Gigamesh

Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American writer of science fiction. He has published 22 novels and numerous short stories and is best known for his Mars trilogy. His work has been translated into 24 languages. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes and feature scientists as heroes. Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the World Fantasy Award. The Atlantic has called Robinson's work "the gold standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing." According to an article in The New Yorker, Robinson is "generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fiction writers." Source: Wikipedia (en)