Background
Alma Alexander Hromic-Deckert was born on July 5, 1963, Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia. She spent her childhood in Africa, her early adulthood in New Zealand. Today Alma Hromic-Deckert lives in the United States Bellingham, Washington.
Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa
The University of Cape Town, from where Alma Alex graduated with a Master of Science in Microbiology in 1987.
("Empress", a novel in Alma Alexander's historical fantasy...)
"Empress", a novel in Alma Alexander's historical fantasy universe, leaves the shores of Imperial China-inspired Syai, the setting of her extraordinary and acclaimed "Secrets of Jin-Shei" and its sequel, "Embers of Heaven", and takes the reader into a new world - an alternate-history version of the empire of Byzantium.
https://www.amazon.com/Empress-Alma-Alexander/dp/1611385806/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(The 14 stories in this book are bridges made of words - c...)
The 14 stories in this book are bridges made of words - crossing into language landscapes of Japan, of Sweden, of France, of Portugal, of Tierra del Fuego - glimpses into the worldview and the mindset of cultures different enough from our own to produce a single word that encompasses a world of concepts. Translating the untranslatable.
https://www.amazon.com/Untranslatable-Alma-Alexander/dp/1949914585/?tag=2022091-20
2018
Alma Alexander Hromic-Deckert was born on July 5, 1963, Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia. She spent her childhood in Africa, her early adulthood in New Zealand. Today Alma Hromic-Deckert lives in the United States Bellingham, Washington.
Alma Hromic was educated in the United Kingdom and South Africa. She graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Master of Science in Microbiology in 1987.
Alma Alexander Hromic is an author of the wide range. Since 1995, she published numerous book reviews, travelogues, essays, poetry, and other articles in various magazines around the world.
In 1995 she moved to New Zealand, where her first book-length work, "Houses in Africa", a memoir of the twenty years she spent in Zambia, Swaziland, and South Africa was published. Alma Alexander also published a collection of three fables in New Zealand in 1995, the best-selling "The Dolphin s Daughter and Other Stories."
In 1999, with the beginning of NATO air strikes against Serbia, Hromic witnessed from afar the destruction of her native town, Novi Sad. Desperate to be somehow involved from the distance of her home in Auckland, New Zealand, she began a series of e-mail correspondences with a friend she had met online - a Florida journalist R. A. Deckert. The result of this correspondence was the collaboration of Letters from the Fire, described as a "cyber-romance novel set in the political context of the NATO bombings."
Hromic next ventured into fantasy literature, publishing two volumes of "Changer of Days" in 2001 and 2002. Her famous novel, "The Secrets of Jin-Shei", was published in 2004 and today is translated into 13 languages. Nowadays she works on a novel dealing with the Anasazi Indians of the American Southwest, cyber-magic, and a race of elves.
("Empress", a novel in Alma Alexander's historical fantasy...)
2016(The 14 stories in this book are bridges made of words - c...)
2018
Quotations:
“The most surprising thing I have learned as a writer is that it is possible to live in many worlds and love them all."
"Reading is the first thing that got me interested in writing. As a child I read the way other people breathed or ate - it was as much a part of my existence as my heartbeat."
Alma Hromic is believed to love puns, to be a chronic worrier, sometimes honest to the point of being tactless. She is sentimental and has an incredible memory for detailed trivia like dates and old song lyrics.
Alma's father's employment with international aid agencies meant that the family spent twenty years living in various countries in Africa, including Zambia, Swaziland, and South Africa.