(Madison, Wisconsin) Author of The Name of the Wind, his dazzling literary debut and first volume of The Kingkiller Chronicle that established him as a publishing phenomenon and marked him as a milestone in international fantasy. The novel, which has been translated into thirty-five languages and praised by readers and critics; won the Quill Award for Best Work of Fantasy in 2007 and has sold ten million copies worldwide and is on the New York Times bestseller list. For his mastery as a storyteller and the originality of his stories, critics have compared Rothfuss to great writers like J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, and George R. R. Martin. He currently lives in Wisconsin and, besides writing, runs Worldbuilders, a charity with humanitarian purposes.
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