P. Djèlí Clark

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P. Djèlí Clark
Born Dexter Gabriel
1971 (age 52–53)
Queens, New York, U.S.
Pen name Phenderson Djèlí Clark
Occupation Writer, historian
Nationality American
Period 2011–present
Genre Fantasy, science fiction
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Website
pdjeliclark.com

Dexter Gabriel (born 1971), better known by his pen name Phenderson Djèlí Clark, is an American speculative fiction writer and historian, who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Connecticut. He uses a pen name to differentiate his literary work from his academic work, and has also published under the name A. Phenderson Clark. His pen name "Djèlí", makes reference to the griots – traditional Western African storytellers, historians and poets.

In 2022, his fantasy novel A Master of Djinn won the Nebula and Locus Awards. He has also won awards for his short fiction, including the Nebula, Locus and British Fantasy Awards for the novella Ring Shout in 2021.

Life and career

Dexter Gabriel was born in New York City in 1971, but spent most of his early years living in his parents' original home of Trinidad and Tobago.[1][2] At age eight, he returned to the US and lived in Staten Island and Brooklyn before moving to Houston, Texas, when he was 12.[3][1] Gabriel went to college at Texas State University-San Marcos, earning a B.A. and then an M.A. in history. He then earned a doctorate in history from Stony Brook University. Gabriel is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Connecticut.[4]

In 2011, Gabriel began publishing short stories variously as P. Djèlí Clark, Djèlí A. Clark, Phenderson Djèlí Clark, and A. Phenderson Clark.[2] Phenderson was his grandfather's name, while Clark was his mother's maiden name; Djèlí refers to West African storytellers, known in French as griots.[1][5] He chose to use a pen name in order to separate his academic and literary work. In 2016, Clark sold his first major work, a novelette titled "A Dead Djinn in Cairo", to Tor.com.[1] Since then, he has published novellas, short stories, and a novel. Four of his works – "A Dead Djinn in Cairo", "The Angel of Khan el-Khalili", The Haunting of Tram Car 015 and A Master of Djinn – are set in the same world, an alternate-universe Egypt. They are collectively titled the Ministry of Alchemy series[2] or the Dead Djinn Universe.[6]

Literary recognition

Novels

<templatestyles src="Screen reader-only/styles.css" />Novels
Year[lower-alpha 1] Work Award Result Ref.
2021 A Master of Djinn Hugo Award Nominated [7]
Ignyte Award Won [8]
Locus Award Won [9]
Mythopoeic Award Nominated [7]
Nebula Award Won [10]
World Fantasy Award Nominated [11]
Compton Crook Award Won [12]

Novellas

<templatestyles src="Screen reader-only/styles.css" />Novellas
Year[lower-alpha 1] Work Award Result Ref.
2018 The Black God's Drums Hugo Award Nominated [13]
Locus Award Nominated [7]
Nebula Award Nominated [7]
World Fantasy Award Nominated [7]
2019 The Haunting of Tram Car 015 Hugo Award Nominated [14]
Locus Award Nominated [7]
Mythopoeic Award Nominated [7]
Nebula Award Nominated [15]
2020 Ring Shout British Fantasy Award Won [7]
Hugo Award Nominated [16]
Locus Award Won [7]
Nebula Award Won [17]
Shirley Jackson Award Nominated [7]
World Fantasy Award Nominated [7]

Short stories

<templatestyles src="Screen reader-only/styles.css" />Short stories
Year[lower-alpha 1] Work Award Result Ref.
2018 "The Secret Lives of the Nine
Negro Teeth of George
Washington"		 Hugo Award Nominated [18]
Locus Award Won [19]
Nebula Award Won [20]
Sturgeon Award Nominated [21]
2021 "If the Martians Have Magic" Locus Award Nominated [7]
Sturgeon Award Nominated [22]
World Fantasy Award Nominated [11]

Partial bibliography

Dead Djinn Universe

  • "A Dead Djinn in Cairo" (novelette), Tor.com, 2016.[2]
  • "The Angel of Khan el-Khalili" (short story), Clockwork Cairo: Steampunk Tales of Egypt, ed. Matthew Bright, Twopenny Books, 2017.[23]
  • The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (novella), Tor.com, 2019.[2]
  • A Master of Djinn (novel), Tordotcom, 2021.[6]

Other works

Notes

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References

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