S. A. Chakraborty

Chakraborty's debut novel, The City of Brass, was highly acclaimed when it debuted in 2017 and was a finalist for several science fiction and fantasy awards, including the Crawford Award, Compton Crook Award, Locus Award, British Fantasy Award, World Fantasy Award. It won the Booknest.eu award for best Debut Novel. The sequel, The Kingdom of Copper, was published to critical acclaim in 2019, and later that year Chakraborty was named a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award.{{cite web |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2019-hugo-awards/ |title=2019 Hugo Awards |date=July 28, 2019 |publisher=World Science Fiction Society |accessdate=August 20, 2019}} The final installment in the Daevabad trilogy, The Empire of Gold, was released in June 2020. The River of Silver: Tales From the Daevabad Trilogy, a collection of stories taking place in Daevabad, came out in 2022.{{Cite web|title=The River of Silver|url=https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-river-of-silver-s-a-chakraborty|access-date=2021-12-08|website=HarperCollins|language=en}}

Chakraborty's next trilogy, pitched as Ocean's Eleven meets Pirates of the Caribbean, is set in the 12th-century Indian Ocean. In the series debut, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, an infamous retired pirate returns to her old profession when she is offered the chance to right a wrong from her past and gain a fabled treasure. It was published in February 2023 by Harper Voyager.{{Cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/83211-in-her-goodbye-to-daevebad-s-a-chakraborty-goes-gold.html|website=www.publishersweekly.com|access-date=May 24, 2020 |title=In Her Goodbye to Daevebad, S.A. Chakraborty Goes Gold |date=May 1, 2020 |first=Sona |last=Charaipotra}}{{Cite web|title=S. A. Chakraborty|url=https://www.sachakraborty.com/|website=S. A. Chakraborty|language=en|access-date=May 24, 2020}}

In May 2020, it was announced that Complete Fiction, a film and television company, would be developing The Daevabad Trilogy as a series for Netflix.{{Cite web|title=Edgar Wright, Nira Park, Joe Cornish, Rachael Prior launch production company Complete Fiction|url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/edgar-wright-nira-park-joe-cornish-rachael-prior-launch-production-company-complete-fiction/5149964.article|last=Dalton2020-05-20T00:59:00+01:00|first=Ben|website=Screen|language=en|access-date=May 24, 2020}}

Chakraborty was born and raised in New Jersey to Catholic parents{{cite web|url=https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/sa-chakrabortys-the-city-of-brass-started-out-as-history-fan-fiction|title=S.A. Chakraborty's The City of Brass started out as history fan fiction|last=Krishna|first=Swapna|website=SyFy Wire|access-date=June 30, 2019}} and converted to Islam in her teens;{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/features/s-chakraborty/|title=Interview with S.A. Chakraborty|last=McDonald|first=James|website=Kirkus Reviews|access-date=June 30, 2019}} Chakraborty is her married name.{{cite web|title=Shannon/S. A. Chakraborty on Twitter|url=https://twitter.com/SAChakrabooks/status/927334640985272326|last=Chakraborty|first=S. A.|language=en|access-date=June 18, 2020}} She originally intended to be a historian specializing in the Middle East; however, the 2008 financial crisis derailed those plans, so while she worked to support herself and her husband, she also kept herself occupied by writing what she called "historical fan fiction" that later became her first novel, The City of Brass.

She lives in New Jersey with her husband and daughter.

• Listen List (2024).The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi. Narrated by Lameece Issaq and Amin El Gamal. HarperAudio.Moore, Ninah.(2024). [https://rusaupdate.org/2024/01/2024listenlist/ 2024 RUSA Listen List Revealed.] American Library Association, January 20, 2024.

1. The City of Brass (2017) {{ISBN|978-0062678119}}
2. The Kingdom of Copper (2019) {{ISBN|978-0062678133}}
3. The Empire of Gold (2020) {{ISBN|978-0008239497}}

1. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (2023) {{ISBN|978-0062963505}}

1. "The Djinn" (2011) (as S. Ali), published in Expanded Horizons issue 29, June 2011
2. "Yerushalom" (2011) (as S. Ali), published in Crossed Genres issue 31, July 2011
3. "Bilaadi" (2012) (as S. Ali), published in The Future Fire February 2012

1. The River of Silver: Tales From the Daevabad Trilogy (2022) {{ISBN|978-0063093737}}

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