Sabrina Calvo

Sabrina Calvo was born on 19 September 1974 in Marseille.{{Cite web |last=Paris 8 |first=Université |date=2021-02-08 |title=Rencontre avec Sabrina Calvo |url=https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/rencontre-avec-sabrina-calvo-8724721 |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=France Culture |language=fr}}{{Cite news |last=Cloutier |first=Mario |date=2018-07-19 |title=Sabrina Calvo: l'envie du Québec |url=https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/livres/entrevues/201807/19/01-5190108-sabrina-calvo-lenvie-du-quebec.php |access-date=2024-07-20 |work=La Presse |language=fr-CA}} She came out as trans in 2017 in the Mauvais Genre programme at the Utopiales festival.{{Cite web |title=Rencontre avec Sabrina Calvo |url=https://octaviana.fr/items/show/9500#?c=&m=&s=&cv= |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240720102059/https://octaviana.fr/items/show/9500#?c=&m=&s=&cv= |archive-date=20 July 2024 |access-date=20 July 2024 |website=octaviana.fr |language=fr}} She lives between Paris and Montreal.

Sabrina Calvo is a writer and also a performance artist, and has collaborated with artists including Jeff Mills at the Musée du Louvre in 2015.{{Cite web |title=The Last Storyteller : Jeff Mills et David Calvo @Auditorium du Louvre |url=https://www.sortiraparis.com/scenes/concert-musique/articles/79784-the-last-storyteller-jeff-mills-et-david-calvo-auditorium-du-louvre |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=www.sortiraparis.com |language=fr}} She has given talks and round tables at the Chroniques Digital Arts Biennial,{{Cite web |title=Biennial of Digital Imaginaries 2020 – Chroniques |url=https://chroniques.org/en/evenement/biennial-of-digital-imaginaries-2020/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240720103831/https://chroniques.org/en/evenement/biennial-of-digital-imaginaries-2020/ |archive-date=20 July 2024 |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=chroniques.org |language=fr}} Mutek,{{Cite web |title=Sabrina Calvo |url=https://montreal.mutek.org/en/speakers/sabrina-calvo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240720103945/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://montreal.mutek.org/en/speakers/sabrina-calvo |archive-date=20 July 2024 |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=MUTEK Montréal |language=fr}} Sonic Protest,{{Cite web |title=Agoras à Saint-Ouen le 25-26 mars 2022 [Festival Sonic Protest] |url=https://commedesfous.com/agoras-a-saint-ouen-le-25-26-mars-2022-festival-sonic-protest/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240720104539/https://commedesfous.com/agoras-a-saint-ouen-le-25-26-mars-2022-festival-sonic-protest/ |archive-date=20 July 2024 |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=commedesfous.com |language=fr-FR}} {{Interlanguage link|Étonnants Voyageurs|lt=Étonnants Voyageurs|fr|Étonnants Voyageurs}},{{Cite web |last=Voyageurs |first=Etonnants |date=2024-07-20 |title=Quand le jeu vidéo rencontre la littérature |url=https://www.etonnants-voyageurs.com/Quand-le-jeu-video-rencontre-la-litterature.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240720105246/https://www.etonnants-voyageurs.com/Quand-le-jeu-video-rencontre-la-litterature.html |archive-date=20 July 2024 |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=Etonnants Voyageurs |language=fr}} les Utopiales, les Imaginales, les Intergalactiques and la Maison de la poésie,{{Cite web |date=2021 |title=« Se réinventer en communautés, deux visages de la science-fiction queer » avec Sabrina Calvo & Phoebe Hadjimarkos Clarke |url=https://maisondelapoesieparis.com/programme/le-mois-de-limaginaire-sabrina-calvo-phoebe-hadjimarkos-clarke/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240427174839/https://maisondelapoesieparis.com/programme/le-mois-de-limaginaire-sabrina-calvo-phoebe-hadjimarkos-clarke/ |archive-date=2024-04-27 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=Maison de la poésie |language=fr}} among others.

In 2021 she spoke out in favour of reforming sexist and toxic behaviour in the world of fantasy literature publishing.{{Cite web |last=Dupont-Besnard |first=Marcus |date=2021-05-05 |title=« Le niveau d'exigence est plus élevé que pour les hommes » : comment lutter contre le sexisme dans la SF/fantasy ? |url=https://www.numerama.com/pop-culture/708708-le-niveau-dexigence-est-plus-eleve-que-pour-les-hommes-comment-lutter-contre-le-sexisme-dans-la-sf-fantasy.html |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=Numerama |language=fr-FR}}{{Cite web |last=Addictic |title=Huit autrices de Bragelonne écrivent une lettre ouverte à leur éditeur |url=https://www.actusf.com/detail-d-un-article/huit-autrices-de-bragelonne-%C3%A9crivent-une-lettre-ouverte-a-leur-%C3%A9diteur |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240720105904/https://www.actusf.com/detail-d-un-article/huit-autrices-de-bragelonne-%C3%A9crivent-une-lettre-ouverte-a-leur-%C3%A9diteur |archive-date=20 July 2024 |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=ActuSF - Site sur l'actualité de l'imaginaire |language=fr}}

Sabrina Calvo co-wrote the virtual reality drama 7 Lives, directed by Jan Kounen. 7 Lives is part of the 2019 VR selection at the Tribeca Film Festival.{{Cite web |title=7 Lives {{!}} 2019 Tribeca Festival |url=https://www.tribecafilm.com/festival/archive/7-lives-2019 |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=Tribeca}}{{Cite news |last=Landoyer |first=Laurence |date=26 November 2019 |title=7 lives : oeuvre en VR de Jan Kounen aux multiples récompenses |url=https://www.francetvlab.fr/articles/7-lives-oeuvre-en-vr-de-jan-kounen-aux-multiples-recompenses |language=fr}}

Her first novel, Délius, une chanson d'été,{{Cite web |last=Addictic |title=La Nuit des labyrinthes - Les secrets d'écriture de Sabrina Calvo |url=https://www.actusf.com/detail-d-un-article/la-nuit-des-labyrinthes-les-secrets-d%C3%A9criture-de-sabrina-calvo |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=ActuSF - Site sur l'actualité de l'imaginaire |language=fr}} was published in 1997. The book refers in particular to the composer Frederick Delius, and the title is taken from a song by Kate Bush, Delius (Song of Summer), which appeared on the album Never for Ever,{{Cite book |last=Farasse |first=Gérard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I9-AJLDMfxUC&dq=calvo+D%C3%A9lius%2C+une+chanson+d%27%C3%A9t%C3%A9+kate+bush&pg=PA61 |title=Envois & Dédicaces |date=2010-06-10 |publisher=Presses Univ. Septentrion |isbn=978-2-7574-0160-6 |language=fr}}{{Cite web |title=Rock'n'write : David Calvo - Le blog Bifrost {{!}} Le Bélial |url=https://blog.belial.fr/post/2012/12/17/Rock-n-write-David-Calvo |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240720110850/https://blog.belial.fr/post/2012/12/17/Rock-n-write-David-Calvo |archive-date=20 July 2024 |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=blog.belial.fr |language=fr}}

In 2004, based on a script by Sabrina Calvo, {{Interlanguage link|Thomas Azuélos|lt=Thomas Azuélos|fr|Thomas Azuélos}} drew Télémaque,{{Cite web |title=Télémaque |url=https://www.actuabd.com/Telemaque |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240720111352/https://www.actuabd.com/Telemaque |archive-date=20 July 2024 |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=ActuaBD |language=fr}} in which the author's dreamlike world’ is expressed. In 2006, the duo published Akhénaton, co-written with Thomas Azuélos, tackling the subject of transidentity. ActuaBD described the work as {{Cite web |last=Taugis |first=David |title=Akhénaton - par Azuélos et Calvo - Carabas |url=https://www.actuabd.com/Akhenaton-par-Azuelos-et-Calvo-Carabas |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240427174834/https://www.actuabd.com/Akhenaton-par-Azuelos-et-Calvo-Carabas |archive-date=2024-04-27 |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=ActuaBD |language=fr}}

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In 2015, Sabrina Calvo published Sous la Colline, a transfeminist{{Cite web |last=Allan |date=2017-12-12 |title=Rencontre avec Sabrina Calvo |url=https://www.fantastinet.com/rencontre-avec-sabrina-calvo/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240720112809/https://www.fantastinet.com/rencontre-avec-sabrina-calvo/#selection-361.0-361.5 |archive-date=20 July 2024 |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=Fantastinet |language=fr-FR}} urban fantasy novel exploring the intimate topography of Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse in Marseille and exploiting the myths of the city.{{Cite web |last=Moulin |first=Louis |title=« Envisager les bâtiments comme des mystères": discussion sur la ville avec Sabrina Calvo |url=https://www.pop-up-urbain.com/envisager-les-batiments-comme-des-mysteres-discussion-sur-la-ville-avec-sabrina-calvo/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240720113417/https://www.pop-up-urbain.com/envisager-les-batiments-comme-des-mysteres-discussion-sur-la-ville-avec-sabrina-calvo/ |archive-date=20 July 2024 |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=pop-up urbain, cabinet de conseil en prospective urbaine |language=fr}}{{Cite web |last=Lavergne |first=Sophie |date=2021-12-09 |title=La science-fiction « intime et anarchiste » de Sabrina Calvo |url=https://friction-magazine.fr/la-science-fiction-intime-et-anarchiste-de-sabrina-calvo/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240720113809/https://friction-magazine.fr/la-science-fiction-intime-et-anarchiste-de-sabrina-calvo/ |archive-date=20 July 2024 |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=Friction Magazine |language=fr-FR}} Her counter-dystopian novel Toxoplasma, featuring an anti-capitalist commune in Montreal{{Cite news |last=Guy |first=Chantal |date=2019-06-05 |title=SF et fantasy féministe: il existe d'autres mondes |url=https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/litterature/2019-06-05/sf-et-fantasy-feministe-il-existe-d-autres-mondes |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240720114328/https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/litterature/2019-06-05/sf-et-fantasy-feministe-il-existe-d-autres-mondes |archive-date=20 July 2024 |access-date=2024-07-20 |work=La Presse |language=fr-CA}} and questioning gender identities, won the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire in 2018.{{Cite web |title=Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2018 – Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire |url=https://gpi.noosfere.org/gpi-2018/ |access-date=2024-07-20 |language=fr-FR}}{{Cite web |title=Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire : Toxoplasma de Calvo consacré |url=https://actualitte.com/article/19279/prix-litteraires/grand-prix-de-l-imaginaire-toxoplasma-de-calvo-consacre |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=ActuaLitté.com |language=fr-FR}}

She continued her exploration of these themes with Melmoth Furieux, an uchronia published in 2021, featuring an update of the Paris Commune in an alternative, policed and authoritarian present.{{Cite web |last=Dupont-Besnard |first=Marcus |date=2021-09-19 |title=Sabrina Calvo : dans Melmoth Furieux, la solidarité « pose les bases d'une société future » |url=https://www.numerama.com/pop-culture/740019-sabrina-calvo-dans-melmoth-furieux-la-solidarite-pose-les-bases-dune-societe-future.html |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=Numerama |language=fr-FR}} In this novel, she takes her inspiration from Eulalie Papavoine, a dressmaker and ambulance driver during the Paris Commune, for the book's main character and narrator named Fi. Fi is a seamstress from Belleville whose brother, a Disney employee, set himself on fire during the inauguration of Disneyland in 1992, and who joins a self-managed commune in Belleville to organise the revolt against the militia. The book's title is a reference to Balzac's short story Melmoth réconcilié and Charles Robert Maturin's novel Melmoth ou l'Homme errant.{{Cite web |last=Roussel |first=Frédérique |title=«Melmoth Furieux», tornade à la communarde |url=https://www.liberation.fr/culture/livres/melmoth-furieux-tornade-a-la-communarde-20210914_FUCTGU44ZNCIFHOMWEHWU4YNMI/ |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=Libération |language=fr}}{{Cite web |last=Nadeau) |first=Sébastien Omont (En attendant |date=2021-09-05 |title=Pour la rentrée littéraire, trois romans souples et fraternels |url=https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-idees/050921/pour-la-rentree-litteraire-trois-romans-souples-et-fraternels |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=Mediapart |language=fr}}

Her novels, often classified as science fiction, explore the geographical worlds of cities such as Marseille, Paris and Montreal, in a dystopian, dreamlike universe inspired by maps of places and revolutionary historical events from an anti-capitalist, anarchist and transfeminist perspective, at the crossroads between the genres of cyber punk and urban fantasy.{{Cite web |date=28 September 2024 |title=Melmoth furieux de sabrina Calvo |url=https://lundi.am/Melmoth-furieux-de-Sabrina-Calvo |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240720120149/https://lundi.am/Melmoth-furieux-de-Sabrina-Calvo |archive-date=20 July 2024 |access-date=20 July 2024 |website=lundi.am |language=fr}}{{Cite web |last=De Sepausy |first=Victor |date=27 August 2021 |title=Sabrina Calvo, aux avant-postes de la révolution avec Melmoth furieux |url=https://actualitte.com/article/102100/avant-parutions/sabrina-calvo-aux-avant-postes-de-la-revolution-avec-melmoth-furieux |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240720120737/https://actualitte.com/article/102100/avant-parutions/sabrina-calvo-aux-avant-postes-de-la-revolution-avec-melmoth-furieux |archive-date=20 July 2024 |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=ActuaLitté.com |language=fr-FR}} She is cited as one of the emblematic authors of lesbian literature.{{Cite web |last=Turbiau |first=Aurore |date=2022-04-24 |title=Quels sont les noms qui rayonnent dans la littérature lesbienne ? |url=http://theconversation.com/quels-sont-les-noms-qui-rayonnent-dans-la-litterature-lesbienne-175402 |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}

Sabrina Calvo's novels and productions have won awards. Her novel Wonderful won the 2002 {{Interlanguage link|Prix Julia-Verlanger|lt=Prix Julia-Verlanger|fr|Prix Julia-Verlanger}}.{{Cite web |title=Julia Verlanger - Prix littéraire - nooSFere |url=https://www.noosfere.org/livres/prix.asp?numprix=32&tri=cat |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=www.noosfere.org |language=fr}} Sous la Colline won the 2016 {{Interlanguage link|Prix Bob-Morane|lt=Prix Bob-Morane|fr|Prix Bob-Morane}}, and Toxoplasma won the 2018 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire and the Prix Rosny aîné the same year.{{Cite web |title=Sabrina Calvo et Loïc Henry, Prix Rosny aîné 2018 |url=https://actualitte.com/article/18039/prix-litteraires/sabrina-calvo-et-loic-henry-prix-rosny-aine-2018 |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=ActuaLitté.com |language=fr-FR}}

• 2002: Prix Julia-Verlanger for Wonderful
• 2016: Prix Bob Morane for Sous la Colline{{Cite web|url=https://bobmorane.noosfere.org/?p=163|title=Lauréats 2016 | Prix Bob Morane|date=12 March 2016 }}
• 2018: Grand prix de l'Imaginaire for Toxoplasma{{Cite web|url=http://www.livreshebdo.fr/article/les-grands-prix-de-limaginaire-2018-devoiles|title=Les Grands Prix de l'Imaginaire 2018 dévoilés|website=Livres Hebdo}}
• 2018: Prix Rosny aîné for Toxoplasma

• {{Cite book |title=Délius, une chanson d'été |date=2003 |publisher=J'ai lu |isbn=978-2-290-32563-6 |edition=Éd. rev. par l'auteur |series=J'ai lu |location=Paris}}
• {{Cite book |title=La nuit des labyrinthes |date=2004 |publisher=J'ai lu |isbn=978-2-290-33356-3 |series=J'ai lu |location=Paris}}
• {{cite book |title=Wonderful |date=2001 |publisher=Bragelonne |isbn=9782914370042}}
• Atomic Bomb, avec Fabrice Colin (2002, Ed. du Bélial)
• {{Cite book |last1=Calvo |first1=Sabrina |title=Sunk |last2=Colin |first2=Fabrice |last3=Cremet |first3=Arnaud |date=2005 |publisher=les Moutons électriques |isbn=978-2-915793-02-4 |location=Lyon}}
• {{Cite book |title=Minuscules flocons de neige depuis dix minutes |date=2006 |publisher=les Moutons électriques |isbn=978-2-915793-19-2 |location=Lyon}}
• {{Cite book |title=Elliot du néant |date=2012 |publisher=la Volte |isbn=978-2-917157-17-6 |location=Clamart}}
• {{Cite book |title=Sous la colline |date=2015 |publisher=la Volte |isbn=978-2-37049-012-4 |location=Clamart}}
• {{cite book |title=Toxoplasma |isbn=9782370490544 |year=2017 |last1=Calvo |first1=Sabrina |publisher=La Volte }}

• Oniri Island, 2018{{Cite web|url=https://swissgames.ch/2018/12/12/oniri-island-a-successful-quest/|title=Oniri Islands»: a successful quest|date=December 12, 2018}}
• The Inner Friend, 2018{{Cite web|url=http://theinnerfriend.com/|title=The Inner Friend - A video game by PLAYMIND|website=theinnerfriend.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.gamingcypher.com/the-inner-friend-dialogue-free-jungian-themed-horror-game-releasing-this-summer/|title=THE INNER FRIEND Dialogue-Free Jungian-themed Horror Game Releasing this Summer|date=March 27, 2019}}

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