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Liu at the 2016 Texas Book Festival
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Born | 1976 Lanzhou, China |
Occupation | Author, Translator, Lawyer, Programmer |
Nationality | American |
Genre | Science fiction, Fantasy |
Notable works | The Paper Menagerie (2012), The Grace of Kings (2015), English translation of The Three Body Problem (2015) |
Notable awards | Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy |
Spouse | Lisa Tang Liu |
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Traditional Chinese | 劉宇昆 | ||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 刘宇昆 | ||||||
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Hanyu Pinyin | Liú Yǔkūn |
Ken Liu (born 1976) is an American science-fiction and fantasy writer and translator of science fiction and literary stories from Chinese into English. His short stories have appeared in F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and multiple "Year's Best" anthologies.
His short story "The Paper Menagerie" is the first work of fiction, of any length, to win the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards. His short story, "Mono no aware" won the 2013 Hugo, and his novella "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" was also nominated for a Hugo. His translation of the novel The Three-Body Problem won the 2015 Hugo Award, the first translated novel in history to win that honor.
Ken Liu is currently writing his series The Dandelion Dynasty (edited by Joe Monti) for Saga Press. The first novel in the series, The Grace of Kings, was a 2016 Nebula Award finalist.DMG Entertainment has licensed the worldwide film rights to the series.
Liu was born in 1976 in Lanzhou, China, and immigrated to the United States when he was 11 years old, initially living in Palo Alto, California, and later moving to Waterford, Connecticut.
Liu earned his A.B. in English from Harvard College and worked in the technology field for several years before earning his J.D. at Harvard Law School and entering the field of tax law. More recently, he has switched to a career as a litigation consultant in technology cases, where he can use both his legal and technology skills.
He currently lives in Massachusetts with his wife Lisa Tang Liu and their two daughters.
Some of Liu's short stories have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and French, and published in short stories collections: