오슨 스콧 카드

소개

오슨 스콧 카드(Orson Scott Card, 1951년 8월 24일 ~ )는 미국의 작가, 평론가이다. SF 작품들로 알려져 있으며 소설 《엔더의 게임》과 《사자의 대변인》(Speaker for the Dead, 1986)으로 휴고상 최우수 장편상과 네뷸러상 장편소설 부문을 각각 2년 연속 수상했다. 카드는 또한 로커스상 수상 문학 시리즈인 《앨빈 메이커 이야기》(The Tales of Alvin Maker)를 집필했다.

Orson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024, he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986). A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card coproduced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2003). Card's fiction often features characters with exceptional gifts who make difficult choices with high stakes. Card has also written political, religious, and social commentary in his columns and other writing; he has provoked controversy and criticism for his public opposition to homosexuality.