Robin Hobb

Robin Hobb is the kind of writer I deeply admire for sheer endurance and craft. Writing under two pen names and sustaining the sprawling Realm of the Elderlings across multiple trilogies takes a discipline most authors never muster. What draws me to her is not spectacle but patience: she builds characters slowly, letting emotional bonds and small betrayals accumulate weight until the payoff lands hard. The 2021 World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award felt like overdue recognition of a career spent honoring readers' attention rather than chasing trends. I respect novelists who trust the long game, and Hobb is one of the finest.

Name (English)

Robin Hobb

Name (Japanese)

ロビン・ホブ

Reading

ろびん・ほぶ

Born

March 5, 1952 (age 74)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dragon

Origin

Berkeley, California, United States

Occupation

writer / novelist / science fiction writer

University

University of Denver

Awards & achievements

• 2017 Inkpot Award
• 2019 Geffen Award
• 2021 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement
• 2007 Imaginales award for best foreign-language novel

• Official sitehttp://www.robinhobb.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/therealrobinhobb/
• Xhttps://x.com/robinhobb
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Hobb
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%93%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%96
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234403

Tags

• California
• writer
• novelist
• science fiction writer

Last updated

2026-06-17

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