Élisabeth Vonarburg (born 5 August 1947) is a science fiction writer. She was born in Paris (France) and has lived in Chicoutimi (now Saguenay), Quebec, Canada since 1973.
From 1979 to 1990, she was the literary director of the French-Canadian science fiction magazine Solaris. Her first novel, Le Silence de la Cité (The Silence in the City), appeared in 1981.
She has received several awards, including "Le Grand Prix de la SF française" in 1982 and a Philip K. Dick Award special citation in 1992 for In the Mothers' Land the English version of Chroniques du pays des mères.
She is the author of Cycle de Tyranaël.
Bibliography Series Maerlande Original Release Title (French) English Release Title (English) 1981 Le Silence de la cité 1988 The Silent City 1992 Chroniques du Pays des Mères 1992 In the Mothers' Land
Tyranaël Original Release Title (French) English Release Title (English) 1994 Contes de Tyranaël 1996 Les rêves de la mer 2003 Dreams of the Sea 1996 Le jeu de la perfection 2005 A Game of Perfection 1997 Mon frère l'ombre 1997 L'Autre Rivage 1997 La Mer allée avec le soleil
Reine de Mémoire Original Release Title (French) 2005 La maison d'oubli 2006 Le dragon de feu 2006 Le dragon fou 2007 La princesse de vengeance 2007 La maison d'équité
Les Pierres et les Roses Original Release Title (French) 2018 La voie des pierres 2018 La voie des roses 2018 La balance et le sablier
Other novels and story collections Original Release Title (French) English Release Title (English) 1980 L'Œil de la nuit 1984 Janus 2000 most stories collected in Slow Engines of Time 1990 Ailleurs et au Japon 1990 L'histoire de la princesse et du dragon 1993 Les Contes de la chatte rouge 1994 Les Voyageurs malgré eux 1995 Reluctant Voyagers 1999 Sang et pierre 2009 most stories collected in Blood Out of Stone 2003 La maison au bord de la mer 2003 Le jeu des coquilles de Nautilus 2013 La musique du soleil 2014 Hôtel Olympia
Anthology Tesseracts Q with Jane Brierley (1996)
External links
"Dreams of the Real: Dreams of the Sea by Elisabeth Vonarburg", by John Garrison, Strange Horizons, 28 June 2004