Charles de Lint

2 universes Last reviewed 2026-09-28

Charles de Lint is a Canadian author widely regarded as a founder of contemporary urban fantasy, born December 22, 1951, in Bussum, Netherlands. His family emigrated to Canada when he was four months old, and he has lived in Ottawa since age eleven. De Lint began writing professionally in 1983 and has remained a full-time author ever since, producing roughly seventy-one books across urban fantasy, contemporary magical realism, and mythic fiction. Beyond fiction, he works as an essayist, folklorist, and critic, writing regular book reviews for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and he is also an accomplished musician performing folk and Celtic music. His best-known creation is the Newford series, a body of interconnected novels and stories set in a fictional North American city, alongside standalone novels including Moonheart, The Blue Girl, The Onion Girl, and Someplace to Be Flying. De Lint received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2018, the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection in 2000 for Moonlight and Vines, the Crawford Award in 1985 for Moonheart, the Aurora Award in 1988 for Jack, the Giant-Killer, and the White Pine Award in 2006 for The Blue Girl, along with numerous nominations for the Locus and Nebula Awards.

Universe(s)

Books

• Moonheart (1984) · Moonheart / Spiritwalk Core Canon
• The Dreaming Place (1990) · Newford Core Canon
• Spiritwalk (1992) · Moonheart / Spiritwalk Core Canon
• Memory and Dream (1994) · Newford Core Canon
• Trader (1997) · Newford Expanded Canon
• Someplace to Be Flying (1998) · Newford Expanded Canon
• Forests of the Heart (2000) · Newford Expanded Canon
• The Onion Girl (2001) · Newford Core Canon
• Widdershins (2006) · Newford Expanded Canon

Aggregate across all universes

These are separate, unrelated universes; the totals below are plain sums of already-published per-universe facts, never a blended or averaged score across them. See each universe's own figures above.

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 5 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 1 (1 won)

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