Leigh Bardugo
Born in Jerusalem on 6 April 1975, Leigh Bardugo holds citizenship in both Israel and the United States. She writes in English and has worked across several roles, among them novelist, journalist, children's writer, and executive producer. Her education took place at Yale University, where she pursued the studies that preceded her career as a writer.
Bardugo is the author of several novels, including Shadow and Bone, Six of Crows, King of Scars, and Ninth House. These works, written in English, reflect her sustained engagement with long-form fiction across different registers. Alongside her writing, she has served as an executive producer, a role that extends her professional activity beyond prose authorship.
Bardugo has received the Inkpot Award. Her name is recorded in the Library of Congress Name Authority File under the authorized form "Bardugo, Leigh." She continues to work as a novelist and writer, with her occupations spanning fiction, journalism, children's writing, and production.
Quotes by Leigh Bardugo
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If Connecticut is haunted then New Haven is the weirdest of the towns that is haunted.
I had wanted to be a writer for a very long time, and I had started a lot of books and failed to finish them. I had this terrible pattern of beginning manuscripts and then just losing steam, and I had begun to believe that I just didn't have it in me.
Fantasy is expensive. It's an expensive endeavor. I have to admit, I didn't write with adaptation in mind. So the books simply become more outlandish as they go on, and they're full of a lot of locations and elaborate set pieces.
At least when I was a kid and a reader, I loved the feeling of wondering whether or not something was real, being able to look up connections.
When I created the Grisha, it was important that they be powerful but that they kind of represent the Jewish brain trust that developed before World War II and after World War II in the U.S.
Power in superhero stories and in magic, when people use it, it drains them. It makes them more tired or it drains them. I wanted power to feed the people that used it. I wanted it to make the people who used it stronger, more powerful, and beautiful. That was one of the tents of being a Grisha.
It was important to me that my heroes not be all good and my villains not be all bad.