Benjanun Sriduangkaew

Benjanun Sriduangkaew is a Thai[1] author of science fiction and fantasy, who is also known for controversial online criticism.

Life

Sriduangkaew has said in an interview that she was born in Pattani Province in southern Thailand. After attending university in Bangkok, she worked in Manila, Jakarta and Hong Kong.[2]

Work

Sriduangkaew began publishing short fiction in 2012, with "Courtship in the Country of the Machine Gods",[3] and established a name for herself with a string of high-profile short stories in Clarkesworld Magazine and elsewhere,[4] which led to her nomination for a 2014 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.[5]

Her first long-form publication was the urban fantasy novella Scale-Bright, published in 2014. A follow-up to her three Sun-Moon Cycle stories, it is a love story about a young woman from Hong Kong who has to rescue her sister from Heaven. Reviewing the novel for Tor.com, Niall Alexander described it as "an achievement without equal", appreciating its "delicately drawn characters", "affecting narrative" and the author's prose skills.[6]

Online activity

In 2014 Sriduangkaew was revealed to have been the controversial blogger and book reviewer "Requires Hate" (also known as "Requires Only That You Hate", as well as "Winterfox"). Using these Internet identities, she published violently intimidating and harsh critiques, which included death and rape threats, of many writers she believed to have paid insufficient attention to racism, sexism, heteronormativity, or colonialism in their fiction. Many of her targets were themselves young, female, transgender, and/or persons of color.[7][8] A blog post about Sriduangkaew's behavior by fellow writer Laura J. Mixon[9] won Mixon the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer.[10]

In a blog post in 2015, Sriduangkaew wrote that she had become the target of harassment and cyberstalking campaigns after her Internet identities were revealed, while conceding that "I’ve been shitty in the past".[11]

Bibliography

Novella
Short fiction
Collections

References

  1. ↑ "Thai author Benjanun Sriduangkaew" – http://www.apex-magazine.com/courtship-in-the-country-of-machine-gods/
  2. ↑ Cormick, Craig. "Author Query – Benjanun Sriduangkaew". A Fantastical Librarian. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Courtship in the Country of Machine Gods, by Benjanun Sriduangkaew, originally published in the Future Fire #24, 2012; reprinted in Apex Magazine, July 1, 2014, and The Apex Book of World SF 3 edited by Lavie Tidhar.
  4. ↑ "Archives", clarkesworldmagazine.com
  5. ↑ 2014 Hugo Awards at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved July 31, 2014
  6. ↑ Alexander, Niall (22 August 2014). "Among Myths: Scale-Bright by Benjanun Sriduangkaew". Tor.com. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  7. ↑ Acclaimed sci-fi writer exposed as notorious Internet troll, by Aja Romano, at The Daily Dot; published November 12, 2014; retrieved November 13, 2014
  8. ↑ Ansible 328, November 2014, by David Langford
  9. ↑ Mixon, Laura J. (6 November 2014). "A Report on Damage Done by One Individual Under Several Names" (PDF). Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  10. ↑ Wallace, Amy (23 August 2015). "Who Won Science Fiction's Hugo Awards, and Why It Matters". Wired. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  11. ↑ Sriduangkaew, Benjanun. "Six Months and Counting". Medium.com. Retrieved 8 July 2015.

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