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R. J. Barker

Barker, Robert-James

Birth place: Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK

6 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
February 2004 32 Short Fiction Neither Fruit Nor Fish Dark Animus, February 2004
June 2007 2 Short Fiction Portrait of the Artist As a Good Host Whispers of Wickedness, Summer 2007
August 2017 |2 Interview Emotional Labour in SFF: The Work of Caring Strange Horizons, 28 August 2017
August 2017 Short Fiction Mrs. Berwick Paints BFS Horizons, #5, 2017
April 2018 |9 Interview An Interview with R. J. Barker Grimdark Magazine, April 2018
April 2019 |2 Short Fiction Riggers Three Crows Magazine, April 2019

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2018 British Fantasy Award Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel Age of Assassins Nominee
2018 British Fantasy Award The Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer Age of Assassins Nominee
2018 British Science Fiction Award Best Novel Blood of Assassins Nominee
2018 David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy Morningstar Award Age of Assassins Nominee
2018 The Kitschies Golden Tentacle (Best Debut Novel) Age of Assassins Nominee
2020 British Fantasy Award Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel The Bone Ships Winner

The author states that they dislike the name RJ being made into initials with full stops between the letters.
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