Hao Jingfang


Hao Jingfang, is a Chinese science fiction writer. She won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Folding Beijing, translated by Ken Liu, at the 2016 Hugo Awards.

Biography

Hao Jingfang was born in Tianjin, on July 27, 1984. After high school, she studied, then worked, at Tsinghua University, in the area of physics. After noticing the economic inequality of China, she studied economics in Tsinghua University, obtained a doctoral degree in 2013, and worked as a researcher at China Development Research Foundation since then.
In 2002, as a high school student, she won the first prize at the 4th national high school "New Concept" writing competition. In 2016, she won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for her work Folding Beijing. She became the first Chinese woman to win a Hugo Award.

Personal life

Hao is married and has a daughter.

Original Works

Short Stories

  1. The Last Brave Man
  2. Invisible Planets 2013
  3. The New Year Train

    '''Novella'''

  4. Folding Beijing 2015

    Novel

  5. Vagabonds. Head of Zeus. 2020.