克里斯托弗·鲍里尼

克里斯托弗·詹姆斯·鲍里尼（Christopher James Paolini，1983年11月17日—），美国奇幻小说作家，代表作为《遗产四部曲》。

鲍里尼出生于加利福尼亚州南部，由其父母于蒙大拿州天堂谷抚养长大，从未接受正规教育，仅接受过芝加哥美国学校的通信教育。鲍里尼于初中时开始写作，其作品2002年由其父母的私人出版公司出版。2003年，《伊拉龙》被Alfred A. Knopf重新出版后，成为全美畅销书。2006年，该书被改编为同名电影。他的首本科幻小说《To Sleep in a Sea of Stars》于2020年9月15日出版。

书籍作品

《遗产四部曲》（台湾、香港、澳门译名：《龙骑士四部曲》）

《伊拉龙》（Eragon）（2003年）

《长老 (小说)》（Eldest）（2005年）

《帝国（上）》（Brisingr）（2008年）（台湾、香港、澳门译名：《龙骑士三部曲：降魔火剑》）

《帝国（下）》（Inheritance）（2011年）（台湾、香港、澳门译名：《龙骑士四部曲：最后荣耀》）

《Eragon's Guide to Alagaësia》（2009年）

《龙骑士：浪人．女巫．魔龙》（The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm）（2018年）

《Murtagh》（2023年）

《To Sleep in a Sea of Stars》（2020年）

《Unity》（2021年）- 短篇小说

《Fractal Noise》（2023年）

Christopher James Paolini (born November 17, 1983) is an American and Italian author. He is best known for The Inheritance Cycle, which consists of the books Eragon (2002), Eldest (2005), Brisingr (2008), Inheritance (2011), the follow-up short story collection The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm (2018), and Murtagh (2023), the first in a follow-up duology. His first science fiction novel, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, was published on September 15, 2020. He lives in Paradise Valley, Montana, where he wrote his first book.

Early life

Paolini was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in the area of Paradise Valley, Montana. His family members include his parents, Kenneth Paolini and Talita Hodgkinson, and his younger sister, Angela Paolini. He is of Italian descent; his paternal grandfather was born in Rome and Paolini still has relatives there. Home schooled for the duration of his education, Paolini graduated from high school at the age of 15 through a set of accredited correspondence courses from the American School of Correspondence in Lansing, Illinois.

He has Italian citizenship.

Career

He started his work on his first novel, Eragon, at the age of 15. This novel became the first of The Inheritance Cycle tetralogy, which is set in the mythical land of Alagaësia.

In 2002, Eragon was published for the first time by Paolini International LLC, his parents' publishing company. To promote the book, Paolini toured over 135 schools and libraries, discussing reading and writing, all the while dressed in "a medieval costume of red shirt, billowy black pants, lace-up boots, and a jaunty black cap." He drew the cover art for the first edition of Eragon, which featured Saphira's eye, along with the maps on the inside covers of his books.

In mid-2002, the stepson of author Carl Hiaasen found Eragon in a bookstore and loved it; this led to Hiaasen bringing it to the attention of his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf. Knopf subsequently made an offer to publish Eragon and the rest of The Inheritance Cycle. The second edition of Eragon was published by Knopf in August 2003. At the age of 19, Paolini became a New York Times–bestselling author.

In December 2006, Fox 2000 released the film adaptation of Eragon in theaters around the world. It received mostly negative reviews from critics, and made a combined domestic and international gross of $249,488,115 USD against a production budget of $100,000,000.

Eldest, the sequel to Eragon, was released August 23, 2005. The third book in the cycle, Brisingr, was released on September 20, 2008. Although The Inheritance Cycle was originally planned as a trilogy, a fourth book, Inheritance, was released on November 8, 2011, in the US, Australia, New Zealand, the EU, and India, and was subsequently translated and published in 53 countries. The Inheritance Cycle has sold more than 41 million copies.

On December 31, 2018, The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm, the first book in a series called Tales of Alagaësia, was published and released to the public.

Paolini's first science fiction novel, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, was released on September 15, 2020, by Tor Books.

In October 2021, Christopher released Unity, an interactive Fractalverse story on his science fiction website Fractalverse.net.

On July 25, 2022, Variety reported that Paolini was co-writing a live action television series adaptation of Eragon for Disney+, with Bert Salke executive producing.

On October 3, 2022, Paolini announced Fractal Noise, the second installment in the Fractalverse and a prequel to To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. It was published on May 16, 2023.

On October 8, 2022, it was announced that To Sleep in a Sea of Stars has been optioned by Made Up Stories and Snoot Entertainment.

On November 7, 2023, Murtagh was released as the latest installment in Paolini's world of Alagaësia.