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ROBIN HOBB
One of the most popular fantasy authors of our time is Robin Hobb. She is very glad to be present at the upcoming Elf Fantasy Fair on both days for lectures and signing sessions.
Robin Hobb is the second pen name of novelist Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden (born 1952 in California) who produces primarily fantasy fiction, although she has published some science fiction.
From 1983 to 1992, she wrote exclusively under the pseudonym Megan Lindholm. Fiction under that pseudonym tends to be contemporary fantasy.
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In 1995, she began use of the pseudonym Robin Hobb for works of epic
traditional European Medieval and American Frontier Fantasy. She
currently publishes under both names, and she currently lives in Tacoma,
Washington.
As of 2003 she had sold over 1 million copies of her first nine Robin
Hobb novels. She has just finished writing a two volume novel called The
Rain Wild Chronicles. The volumes are named The Dragon
Keeper and Dragon Haven. Her latest release, The Inheritance, is a
collection of short fiction by both Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm. She
is currently working on her next book, which is as yet untitled
(believed to be City of Dragons and then another book Blood of Dragons).
It will continue the stories of some of the characters from The Rain
Wild Chronicles. www.robinhobb.com
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| CHRISTOPHER 'Eragon' PAOLINI
in Elfia on 21 April 2012
Christopher Paolini (1983) wrote his debut novel Eragon, the first part of the Inheritance Cycle, when he was 15 years old.
In 2002 the book was published by Paolini International LLC, Paolini's parents' company. Soon after it was discovered by a international publisher. At the age of nineteen, Paolini became a New York Times bestselling author.
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The sequels were released in 2005 (Eldest) and 2008 (Brisingr). Although the Inheritance Cycle was planned as a trilogy, the details for Brisingr had to be expanded to include a fourth book, named Inheritance, launched at the end of 2011. To date, the Inheritance Cycle has sold more than 25 million copies and is therefore the most successful fantasy series of this century.
Paolini
will be present in the chapel of castle de Haar on 21 April 2012 to
give lectures and signing sessions and also to answer all the questions
about the monstrous success of his books and about his thoughts on the
not entirely successful movie adaptation of his first book.
ADRIAN STONE
Adrian Stone (1958) has always had a passion for fantasy, already from a young age. At the end of the seventies he was one of the first people in The Netherlands to play the then unknown game of Dungeons & Dragons, something he continued to do for twenty years. Adrian likes to write action packed books which also have some deeper spiritual meaning. Adrian thinks that fantasy books offer the best possible platform to create a world which seems far away but nevertheless is close to our heart. www.adrianstone.com
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