Ken Liu

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Ken Liu

Ken Liu ( Chinese  劉宇昆  /  刘宇昆 , Pinyin Liu Yǔkūn ; born in 1976 in Lanzhou , China ) is a Sino-American science fiction - writer , lawyer and programmers .

Life

Ken Liu was born in Lanzhou, China in 1976. He emigrated to the United States at the age of 11. He first lived in Palo Alto , California , and later in Waterford , Connecticut . Liu earned his Bachelor of Arts in English at Harvard College and worked for several years in the technology sector before his D. Jur. At the Harvard Law School acquired and became active in patent law. He currently lives in Quincy, Massachusetts with his wife Lisa Tang Liu and their two daughters. His hobbies include collecting and repairing old typewriters .

Act

Ken Liu's short stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , Asimov's Science Fiction , Analog Science Fiction and Fact , Lightspeed , Clarkesworld Magazine, and other magazines, as well as in several anthologies including Year's Best SF . His short story The Paper Menagerie is the first prose work to win both the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award . In addition, he won the Hugo 2013 for his short story Mono no aware and his short novel The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary was nominated in 2011 for the "Hugo". Some of his short stories have been translated into Chinese, Japanese and French.

Since 2008 Liu has also translated several science fiction titles and other literature from Chinese into English. His translation of Liu Cixin's Three-body problem won the 2015 Hugo award. This was the first time that this award went to a translated novel.

Liu's debut novel The Grace of Kings in his The Dandelion Dynasty High Fantasy series was published by Saga Press in 2015 and won the Locus Award for best fantasy debut in 2016. Continued in 2016 with The Wall of Storms , the series was published in German by Knaur as a trilogy ( The Wall of Storms was split into two parts according to DNB ) under the title Seidenkrieger or Die Legenden von Dara . The first volume was published by Knaur as a hardcover, paperback and e-book, the second volume as a paperback and e-book and the third volume only as an e-book due to insufficient sales of the previous volumes.

Awards

Award winners

  • 2011: Nebula Award , category “Best Short Story”: The Paper Menagerie.
  • 2012: Hugo Award, category “Best Short Story”: The Paper Menagerie.
  • 2012: World Fantasy Award, category "Best Short Fiction": The Paper Menagerie.
  • 2012: Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards, Category Short Form - Translation from Chinese of The Fish of Lijiang by Chen Qiufan
  • 2013: Hugo Award, category "Best Short Story": Mono no aware.
  • 2013: FantLab's Book of the Year Award, category "best Translated Novella or Short Story": Mono no aware.
  • 2013: FantLab's Book of the Year Award, category “best on-line publication in small form”: The Paper Menagerie.
  • 2015: Hugo Award, category “Best Novel”: The Three-Body Problem. by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu
  • 2015: Sidewise Award for Alternate History: The Long Haul. From the Annals of Transportation. The Pacific Monthly, May 2009.
  • 2016: Locus Award for best novel debut with The Grace of Kings .
  • 2017: Locus Award for The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories collection .

Nominations

  • 2011: Nebula Award , category “Best Novella”: The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary.
  • 2012: Theodore Sturgeon Award , Finalist: The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary and The Paper Menagerie.
  • 2012: Locus Award for the best short story, finalist: The Paper Menagerie.
  • 2012: Hugo Award, category “Best Novella”: The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary.
  • 2013: Nebula Award, “Best Novella” category: All the Flavors .
  • 2013: Nebula Award, category "Best Novelette": The Waves .
  • 2013: Nebula Award, category "Best Short Story": The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species .
  • 2014: Sidewise Award for Alternate History: A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel.
  • 2014: Nebula Award, category "Best Novelette": The Litagation Master and the Monkey King
  • 2015: Nebula Award, category “Best Novel”: The Three-Body Problem. by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu.
  • 2015: Nebula Award, category “Best Novella”: The Regular.

bibliography

Novels

Silk Warrior Trilogy

Original title: The grace of kings - The Dandelion Dynasty . Saga Press, 2015. ISBN 9781481424271
  • The Gods of Dara - Silk Warriors (The Legends of Dara 2) . From the American by Katharina Naumann. Knaur, Munich 2018. ISBN 978-3-426-51907-3 .
Original title: The Wall of Storms - The Dandelion Dynasty . Saga Press, 2016. ISBN 9781481424301 (first half of it in the German translation).
  • The Storms of Dara - Silk Warriors (The Legends of Dara 3) . From the American by Katharina Naumann. Knaur, Munich 2019. Only as an e-book: ISBN 978-3-426-45074-1 .
Original title: The Wall of Storms - The Dandelion Dynasty . (Second half of it in the German translation).

Translations from Chinese

  • Ma Boyong: The City of Silence. In: World SF Blog , November 2011.
  • Ma Boyong: The Mark Twain Robots. In: TRSF (September 2011), special publication from MIT's Technology Review.
  • Chen Qiufan: The Fish of Lijiang. In: Clarkesworld Magazine. August 2011.
  • Chen Qiufan: The Flowers of Shazui. In: Interzone , November 2012.
  • Liu Cixin: Taking Care of God. In: Pathlight , March 2012.
  • Xia Jia: A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight. In: Clarkesworld Magazine. February 2012.
  • Liu Cixin : The Three-Body Problem. (三 体, 2008; Eng. The Three Suns , 2017). Tor Books, November 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview: Ken Liu. In: The Asian American Literary Review. aalrmag.org, August 16, 2012, accessed August 27, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Luc Reid: Strange Horizons Articles: Not Just Vast Armies Clashing on Dark Plains at Night: An Interview with Ken Liu. In: strangehorizons.com. March 25, 2013, accessed August 27, 2015 .
  3. ↑ 2013 Hugo Awards. In: The Guardian . Retrieved August 27, 2015 .
  4. ↑ David Barnett: The Hugo awards: 'beauty contest' or prize of the people? In: The Guardian. the Guardian, accessed August 27, 2015 .
  5. ↑ 2012 Hugo Awards. thehugoawards.org, accessed August 27, 2015 .
  6. ↑ 2015 Hugo Awards. thehugoawards.org, accessed August 27, 2015 .
  7. ↑ About Translation: For the first time ever, a translated novel wins the Hugo Award. In: www.aboutranslation.com. Retrieved October 12, 2015 .
  8. ^ Novels - Ken Liu, Writer. kenliu.name, accessed August 27, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Fish of Lijiang. In: clarkesworldmagazine.com. Clarkesworld Magazine, August 2011, accessed August 27, 2015 .
  10. ↑ a b c sfadb: Nebula Awards 2013. In: www.sfadb.com. Retrieved October 12, 2015 .
  11. ↑ 2014 Sidewise Award Finalists. In: Locus Publications. June 6, 2014, accessed August 27, 2015 .
  12. ↑ sfadb: Nebula Awards 2014. In: www.sfadb.com. Retrieved October 12, 2015 .
  13. ↑ a b sfadb: Nebula Awards 2015. In: www.sfadb.com. Retrieved October 12, 2015 .
  14. ^ The City of Silence. , online at worldsf.wordpress.com
  15. ↑ The Fish of Lijiang. , online at clarkesworldmagazine.com
  16. ↑ Taking Care of God ( Memento April 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), online at paper-republic.org
  17. ↑ A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight. , online at clarkesworldmagazine.com


personal data
SURNAME Liu, Ken
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, lawyer and programmer
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Lanzhou , China