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Zelda Sabrina MacDonald (born 26 January) is a Scottish novelist.
Early life
[edit]MacDonald was born to Iain, a quantity surveyor, and Penelope MacDonald, the daughter of James Thrower, at Croydon University Hospital. She attended Gresham Primary School, where her mother works, and Riddlesdown Collegiate. She has one brother, Liam.
Career
[edit]In 2021, MacDonald wrote The Mu Of Pooh [[1]], allegorically employing the fictional characters of A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories to explain the basic principles of Japanese philosophy, inspired by Benjamin Hoff's The Tao of Pooh.
She is currently writing a bildungsroman, set to be released in 2025.
Influences
[edit]She cites Jorge Luis Borges, W. G. Sebald, Italo Calvino, Walter Benjamin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, László Krasznahorkai, Dr. Seuss, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons's Watchmen as the biggest literary influences on her work.
Personal life
[edit]MacDonald is queer. She has cerebral palsy and uses a [[wheelchair]. She is autistic, prosopagnosic, aphantasic, and anauralic. She also has intellectual disabilities. She is an anti-capitalist. She currently resides in Purley.
Interests
[edit]She is a polyglot and, in addition to her native English, speaks French, Japanese, Korean, Scots, and Portuguese.
She is a cinephile, listing The Matrix, Touki Bouki, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, The Host, and A Real Young Girl among her favorite films, along with Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tsai Ming-liang, Radu Jude, Lee Chang-dong, Mai Zetterling and Kinuyo Tanaka as her favorite filmmakers.
She is a fan of Japanese manga and anime, citing filmmakers Naoko Yamada, Isao Takahata, and Satoshi Kon and series Neon Genesis Evangelion, Doraemon, and Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou as her favorites.
She is also a fan of video games, citing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Portal, and Super Mario 64 among her favorites, as well as Hideo Kojima and Masahiro Sakurai as her favorite creators, with Pokémon being her favorite series overall.
She is an audiophile, listing Mort Garson, Ennio Morricone, Da Vinci's Notebook, The Wiggles, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Sparks, Kero Kero Bonito, and Wendy Carlos among her favorite musical artists. She has stated Here Come The Martian Martians by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers as her favorite song.
She lists Twin Peaks, SpongeBob SquarePants, Adventure Time, Futurama, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and Star Trek: The Original Series among her favourite television series, while considering Pee-wee's Playhouse to be "the greatest television series ever made", describing Pee-wee Herman as her "hero, model, and the person to whom I most relate, much more so than any real person."