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Tade Thompson FRSL is a British-born Nigerian psychiatrist and writer best known for his science fiction novel series Rosewater. Life and career Thompson was born in London, England, to Yoruba parents. His family left the United Kingdom for Nigeria in 1976, when Thompson was seven. He grew up in Nigeria, where he studied medicine and social anthropology. He went on to specialise in psychiatry. He returned to the UK in 1998, where he has remained except for a year spent working in Samoa. He now lives on the south coast of England.His novels and short stories have been critically well received. Thompson is a Nommo Award and a Kitschies Golden Tentacle Award winner. He is a John W. Campbell Award finalist as well as nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award, the British Science Fiction Award, and the Nommo Award. Thompson is also an illustrator and artist. His novella The Murders of Molly Southbourne has been optioned for screen adaptation.His novel Rosewater, the first book in the Wormwood trilogy set in Nigeria won the Arthur C. Clarke award in 2019.In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Bibliography Novels The Wormwood Trilogy —— (2016). Rosewater. (revised version 2018)—— (2018). Rosewater (paperback ed.). Orbit. pp. 1–432. ISBN 978-0316449052. —— (2019). The Rosewater Insurrection (paperback ed.). Orbit. pp. 1–374. ISBN 978-0316449083. —— (2019). The Rosewater Redemption (paperback ed.). Orbit. pp. 1–416. ISBN 978-0316449090.Stand-alone —— (2015). Making Wolf (hardcover 1st ed.). Rosarium Publishing. pp. 1–270. ISBN 978-1495607486. —— (2021). Far from the Light of Heaven (hardcover 1st ed.). Orbit. pp. 1–384. ISBN 978-0759557918.Novellas and short fiction The Molly Southbourne Trilogy The Murders of Molly Southbourne (2017) The Survival of Molly Southbourne (2019) The Legacy of Molly Southbourne (2022)Stand-alone "The McMahon Institute for Unquiet Minds" (2005) "Slip Road" (2009) "Shadow" (2010) "Notes from Gethsemane" (2012) "Bicycle Girl" (2013) "One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sunlight" (2013) "Slip Road" (revised) (2014) "Budo or, The Flying Orchid" (2014) "The Monkey House" (2015) "Child, Funeral, Thief, Death" (2015) "The Last Pantheon" (2015) (with Nick Wood) "Decommissioned" (2016) "Household Gods" (2016) "The Apologists" (2016) "Gnaw" (2016) "Bootblack" (2017) "Yard Dog" (2018) "Jackdaw" (2022)Poems "Komolafe" (2013)Essays The Last Word on the Last Pantheon (2016) (with Nick Wood) Please Stop Talking about the 'Rise' of African Science Fiction (2018)Other work Omenana Magazine #4 (September 2015) (cover art) In Morningstar's Shadow: Dominion of the Fallen Stories by Aliette de Bodard (2015) (cover art)References External links Tade Thompson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Quotations related to Tade Thompson at Wikiquote. Discover the Tade Thompson popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Tade Thompson books.