Liu Cixin

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Liu Cixin (2015)

Liu Cixin ( Chinese  劉慈欣  /  刘慈欣 , Pinyin Liú Cíxīn ; [lˈjǒuː tsʰɨ̌ˈɕíːn] ; born June 23, 1963 , Yangquan , China ) is a Chinese science fiction writer .

Liu is a nine-time Galaxy Award winner and was awarded the prestigious Hugo Award in 2015 for the best science fiction novel.

life and work

Liu is from Shanxi Province but grew up in Henan Province . In 1988, Liu, whose parents were simple miners , trained as a technician in Zhengzhou . He then worked as a computer technician in a remote power station in his home province of Shanxi. Liu has processed his experiences and knowledge from this time several times in his literary work.

Trisolaris trilogy

Liu's most important and best-known work is the Trisolaris trilogy. The first volume, The Three Suns ( 三 體  /  三 体 , Sān tǐ ), was published in 2007. It became known to Western readers through the English translation by Ken Liu , which was first published in 2014 and in 2015 - as the first novel by a Chinese author - received the prestigious Hugo Award in the Best Novel category.

Barack Obama revealed himself to be a fan of Liu's trilogy and later met him to discuss future publications. Even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg commended the work publicly. The German translation of Drei Sonnen was published in 2017. According to Deutschlandradio , Liu is setting “new standards” in the science fiction genre with his intelligent trilogy. In 2018 the second volume Der dunkle Wald appeared in German, in 2019 the third and final volume Jenseits der Zeit .

Other works

The novellas Spiegel and Weltenzerstörer were also published in German in 2017 and 2018 . In 2018 the wandering earth was an anthology with eleven stories. The short story Moon Night appeared in 2020 in the anthology of Chinese science fiction, Shattered Stars, published by Ken Liu .

Bibliography (selection)

  • 1998: The Longest Fall (地球 大炮)
  • 1998: The Micro-Age (微 纪元)
  • 1999: The Whale's song (鲸 歌)
  • 1999: With Her Eyes (带上 她 的 眼睛)
  • 2000: Inferno (地 火)
  • 2000: The Wandering Earth (流浪 地球), published in German in 2019, ISBN 978-3-453-31924-0
  • 2001: The Rural Teacher (乡村 教师)
  • 2001: Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming (全 频带 阻塞 干扰)
  • 2002: Devourer (吞食 者)
  • 2003: The Glory and the Dream (光荣 与 梦想)
  • 2003: The Era of Supernova (超 新星 纪元)
  • 2003: Of Ants and Dinosaurs (白垩纪 往事)
  • 2004: Kugelblitz (球状 闪电), published in German in May 2020, ISBN 978-3-453-32030-7
  • 2005: Mountain (山)
  • 2005: The Wages of Humanity (赡养 人类)
  • Trisolaris trilogy (三 体 三部曲):

Radio play adaptations

In 2017, WDR and NDR Lius produced Die Drei Sonnen as a twelve-part radio play directed by Martin Zylka , which was first broadcast by radio station WDR 5 from December 25 to 29, 2017. In 2018 the second part of the trilogy was also released as a radio play there.

Film adaptations

On February 5, 2019, the film Die Wandering Erde by director Frant Gwo , a film adaptation of Liu's short story of the same name , was shown in China .

Awards

  • Nine times prize Kehuan Shijie ("SF World") Yinhe ("Galaxy"): 1999–2006, 2010.
  • World Chinese Science Fiction Association's Xingyun (“Nebula”) award for best author: 2010.
  • Hugo Award 2015 for the best novel for The Three-Body Problem (the English version of The Three Suns )
  • Xingyun Award for Best Achievement 2015
  • Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis 2017 for Die Drei Sonnen in the category Best Foreign Work
  • Locus Award 2017 for Death's End in the category Best Science Fiction Novel
  • Premio Italia 2018 for the translation of The Three Suns in the International Science Fiction category
  • Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society 2018 for the author
  • Seiun Award 2019 for The Circle

Web links

Commons : Liu Cixin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chitralekha Basu, Guo Shuhan: What lies beyond. In: China Daily. December 17, 2010, accessed January 10, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Awards for Chinese-language science fictions announced. In: www.gov.cn. Retrieved January 10, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b 2015 Hugo Awards. In: The Hugo Awards. Retrieved January 10, 2016 (American English).
  4. ↑ Andrea Chen: Out of this world: Chinese sci-fi author Liu Cixin is Asia's first writer to win Hugo award for best novel. In: South China Morning Post. August 14, 2015, accessed January 10, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Christian Endres: The ex-president and his favorite author. Cixin Liu and Barack Obama met in Beijing. In: The future. December 1, 2017, accessed December 16, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Michiko Kakutani: Transcript: President Obama on What Books Mean to Him. In: The New York Times . January 16, 2017, accessed December 16, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Nicolas Freund: Reach for red stars. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 15, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Cixin Liu: "The Three Suns" - Highly exciting and intelligent: Science fiction from China. Deutschlandradio, December 21, 2016.
  9. ↑ Radio play podcast: The three suns based on the novel of the same name by Cixin Liu - WDR 5 - Mediathek. Retrieved January 25, 2018 .
  10. ^ WDR 5: Radio play podcast: The dark forest based on the novel of the same name by Cixin Liu . August 27, 2018 ( wdr.de [accessed October 4, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Film based on Three-Body Problem writer's sci-fi story set for February release in China , gbtimes.com October 26, 2018, accessed April 26, 2019.
  12. ^ Cixin Liu Wins Xingyun Award. In: www.locusmag.com. October 20, 2015, accessed October 20, 2015 .


Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Liu is the family name here, Cixin is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Liu, Cixin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1963