Tanith Lee

Tanith Lee
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Raising money for the Alzheimer's Research Trust during the 2011 campaign Match It For Pratchett (Terry Pratchett)
Born(1947-09-19)19 September 1947
London, England
Died24 May 2015(2015-05-24) (aged 67)
East Sussex, England
Pen nameEsther Garber[1]
Judas Garbah
OccupationWriter
GenreSpeculative fiction
Notable awards1980 British Fantasy Award, 1983 & 1984 World Fantasy Award
Spouse
John Kaiine
(m. 1992)

Tanith Lee (19 September 1947 – 24 May 2015) was a British science fiction and fantasy writer. She wrote more than 90 novels and 300 short stories, and was the winner of multiple World Fantasy Society Derleth Awards, the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Horror.[2] She also wrote a children's picture book (Animal Castle), and many poems. She wrote two episodes of the BBC science fiction series Blake's 7 (Sand and Sarcophagus).[3][4]

She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award best novel award (also known as the August Derleth Award), for her book Death's Master (1980).[1][5]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference reid was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Tanith Lee | Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Blake's 7 - SARCOPHAGUS - Review". www.hermit.org. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  4. ^ "Blake's 7 - SAND - Review". www.hermit.org. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  5. ^ Alison Flood (2010). "World of fantasy: Death's Master by Tanith Lee". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 30 June 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2011.

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