China Miéville
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Miéville at Utopiales in 2010
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| Born | China Tom Miéville 6 September 1972 Norwich, England, UK |
| Occupation | Writer, novelist |
| Period | 1998–present |
| Genre | Fantasy, Steampunk, New Weird, Weird fiction |
China Tom Miéville FRSL (/ˈtʃaɪnə miˈeɪvəl/; born 6 September 1972) is an English fantasy fiction author, comic writer, political activist and academic. He often describes his work as weird fiction and specifically to the loosely associated movement of writers sometimes called New Weird.
He is active in left-wing politics in the UK and has previously been a member of the International Socialist Organization (US), and the short-lived International Socialist Network. He was formerly a member of the Socialist Workers Party and in 2013 became a founding member of Left Unity. He stood for Regent's Park and Kensington North for the Socialist Alliance in the 2001 UK General election. He published his PhD thesis on Marxism and international law as a book. During 2012–13 he was writer-in-residence at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
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