As Dziemianowicz further noted, "Most of characters are painters or sculptors on the avant-garde fringe. In the main, however, Koja's books are taken seriously as a new direction in horror fiction, writing against the genre and attempting to bridge such work with mainstream literature. A contributor for Publishers Weekly in a review of her 1994 novel, Strange Angels, accused Koja of "writing with a pretentious, almost adolescent sensibility and a bad case of logorrhea." James Guide to Horror, Ghost, and Gothic Writers. "Koja is that rare writer who has not only cultivated a distinctly original approach to horror fiction, but whose unique style is a natural outgrowth of her horror themes," commented Stefan Dziemianowicz in the St. A Michigan novelist living in metropolitan Detroit, Koja is viewed by critics as bringing new blood to the horror genre. Koja has, with her handful of horror novels, elicited both high praise and angered condemnation from reviewers. and classy smut,'" and that people either love Koja's work or "dismiss it." Indeed, Burroughs and God knows who else." Guran further noted that Koja's novels have been labeled variously, "post-modern, 'modern primitive. Koja's adult novels have been compared, as Paula Guran noted on the DarkEcho Horror Web site, to the work of " Franz Kafka, Clive Barker, Don DeLillo, Marcel Proust, Katherine Dunn, the Marquis de Sade, Edgar Allan Poe, William S. Sidelightsīoth a writer of modern horror novels for adults and sympathetic outsider tales for young adults, author Kathe Koja is a versatile wordsmith.
Talk, Frances Foster Books (New York, NY), 2005. The Blue Mirror, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York, NY), 2004. Straydog, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York, NY), 2002.īuddha Boy, Frances Foster Books (New York, NY), 2003. Strange Angels, Delacorte (New York, NY), 1994.Įxtremities (short stories), Four Walls Eight Windows (New York, NY), 1998. Locus Award for Best First Novel, and Bram Stoker Award for Best First Horror Novel, Horror Writers of America, both 1992, both for The Cipher Humane Society's KIND Book Award, and ASPCA Henry Bergh Award, both 2003, both for Straydog Children's Book Award, International Reading Association, and Society of Midland Authors Children's Fiction Award, both 2004, both for Buddha Boy.
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