Marcel Theroux

Marcel Theroux fascinates me because he refuses to stay in one lane. Born in Kampala, shaped on both sides of the Atlantic, Yale-educated, he writes literary fiction and science fiction while also fronting television, and he has won serious prizes in seemingly opposite worlds. The Somerset Maugham Award and a Campbell Memorial Award rarely sit on the same shelf. I am drawn to that border-crossing imagination, the way Far North and Strange Bodies probe identity and survival from genre to genre. Writers who travel between forms tend to see things the specialists miss, and Theroux strikes me as one of them.

Name (English)

Marcel Theroux

Name (Japanese)

マーセル・セロー

Reading

まーせる・せろー

Born

June 13, 1968 (age 58)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Monkey

Origin

Kampala, Kampala District, Uganda

Occupation

television presenter / novelist / writer / science fiction writer / film director

University

Yale University

Awards & achievements

• 2002 Somerset Maugham Award
• 2014 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.marceltheroux.com/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC

Tags

• Kampala District
• television presenter
• novelist
• writer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.