Rebecca F. Kuang

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Rebecca F. Kuang (born 1996 in Guangzhou in the south of the People's Republic of China ) is an American writer of Chinese origin. She is known for her very successful fantasy debut The Poppy War from 2018.

Life

Kuang and her family emigrated to the United States when she was four years old. The family settled in Denver , Colorado , where they grew up in the United States for the first few years. She attended Greenhill School in Addison , Texas , where she graduated in 2013. She then studied history at Georgetown University in Washington, DC In 2018 she won a Marshall Scholarship, with which she has continued her studies at the University of Cambridge in England ever since. Her dissertation deals with propaganda literature during the Second Sino-Japanese War .

When Kuang was working in China on a hiatus, she began to write. In 2016 she was a participant in the Odyssey Writing Workshop and in 2017 in the CSSF Novel Writing Workshop . Her first novel The Poppy War , published by HarperCollins in 2018 , was a great success. He won the William L. Crawford Fantasy Award and the Compton Crook Award in 2019 and was nominated for the Nebula Award , the Locus Award and for The Kitschies . Kuang herself was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer as a new author .

The Poppy War , the first volume of a planned trilogy , takes place against the background of the wars between the countries of Nikan and Mugen in a fantasy world that is similar to the China of the Song Dynasty , but reflects the history and shapes of Chinese politics in the 20th century and in particular the Sino-Japanese Wars, where Nikan stands for China and Mugen for Japan. The young Rin has just passed the entrance exam at the elite Sinegard military school and tries to find her way when she feels attracted by the teachings of Daoism and the I Ching , finds a gateway to the world of the Daoist gods in opium and thereby finds herself for them an access to great shamanistic power opens up. The Dragon Republic , the second volume in the trilogy, was released in 2019.

bibliography

The Poppy Wars - German
The legend of the shaman (novel trilogy)
  • 1 The Poppy War (2018)
    • English: In the sign of the poppy - the shaman. Translated by Michaela Link. Blanvalet, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-7341-6222-0 .
  • 2 The Dragon Republic (2019)
    • will be published in German in November 2020: Under the sign of the poppy - The Empress. Translated by Michaela Link. Blanvalet, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-7341-6231-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alumna Rebecca Kuang '13 Awarded 2018 Marshall Scholarship , Greenhill School, September 5, 2017. Accessed May 27, 2019.
  2. ↑ Short biography on Kuang's website, accessed May 27, 2019.
  3. ↑ RF Kuang , short biography on WorldsWithoutEnd.com, accessed May 27, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Kuang, Rebecca F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuang, RF
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Guangzhou