query: date_of_birth nalo hopkinson
supports: Mexico (, modern Nahuatl ), officially the United Mexican States, is a federal republic in the southern half of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost two million square kilometers (over 760,000 sq mi), Mexico is the sixth largest country in the Americas by total area and the 13th largest independent nation in the world. With an estimated population of over 120 million, it is the eleventh most populous country and the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world while being the second most populous country in Latin America. Mexico is a federation comprising 31 states and a federal district that is also its capital and most populous city. Other metropolises include Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, Toluca, Tijuana and León. Riverside is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, located in the Inland Empire metropolitan area. Riverside is the county seat of the eponymous county and named for its location beside the Santa Ana River. It is the most populous city in the Inland Empire and in Riverside County, and is located about east of Los Angeles. It is also part of the Greater Los Angeles area. Riverside is the 59th most populous city in the United States and 12th most populous city in California. As of the 2010 Census, Riverside had a population of 303,871. Nalo Hopkinson (born 20 December 1960) is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor. She currently lives and teaches in Riverside, California. Her novels ("Brown Girl in the Ring", "Midnight Robber", "The Salt Roads", "The New Moon's Arms") and short stories such as those in her collection "Skin Folk" often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling. The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth's surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area. It separates the "Old World" from the "New World". The Salt Roads is a novel by Canadian-Jamaican writer Nalo Hopkinson. It has been categorized as historical fiction, speculative fiction, science fiction, and magical realism. Nalo Hopkinson ( born 1960 ) is a Jamaican speculative fiction writer and editor . She currently lives and teaches in Riverside , California . Her novels ( Brown Girl in the Ring , Midnight Robber , The Salt Roads , The New Moon 's Arms ) and short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk often draw on Caribbean history and language , and its traditions of oral and written storytelling . Hopkinson has edited two fiction anthologies ( Whispers From the Cotton Tree Root : Caribbean Fabulist Fiction and Mojo : Conjure Stories ) . She was the co-editor with Uppinder Mehan for the anthology So Long Been Dreaming : Postcolonial Visions of the Future , and with Geoff Ryman for Tesseracts 9 . Hopkinson defended George Elliott Clarke 's novel Whylah Falls on the CBC 's Canada Reads 2002 . She was the curator of Six Impossible Things , an audio series of Canadian fantastical fiction on CBC Radio One . The Caribbean (or ) is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts. The region is southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and the North American mainland, east of Central America, and north of South America. Midnight Robber is a science fiction bildungsroman (coming-of-age novel) by Jamaican-Canadian writer Nalo Hopkinson. Warner Aspect published the novel in 2000. Speculative fiction is a broad umbrella genre denoting any narrative fiction with supernatural or futuristic elements; this encompasses the genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror, alternative history, magic realism, and superhero fiction, as well as combinations of the previous genres. It typically strays strongly from reality and so may feature fictional types of beings like mythical creatures and supernatural entities, technologies that do not exist in real life like time machines and interstellar spaceships, or magical or otherwise scientifically inexplicable elements. The term's popularity is sometimes attributed to Robert Heinlein, who referenced it in 1947 in an editorial essay, although there are prior mentions of speculative fiction, or its variant "speculative literature". Central America is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast. Central America is bordered by Mexico to the north, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Central America consists of seven countries: Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. The combined population of Central America is between 41,739,000 (2009 estimate) and 42,688,190 (2012 estimate). The supernatural (Medieval Latin: "superntrlis": "supra" "above" + "naturalis" "natural", first used: 15201530 AD) includes all that cannot be explained by science or the laws of nature, including things characteristic of or relating to ghosts, gods, or other supernatural beings, or to things beyond nature.
candidates: 120 1520 1947 1960 20 20 december 1960 2000 2010 29 303 31 41 42 739 760 871
answer: 20 december 1960