Ken Liu

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.

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• Biography
• Translations
• Awards and honors
• References

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 the awards' history to have won 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. At Star Wars Celebration 2017 it was announced that Ken would be writing an official Star Wars novel called The Legends of Luke Skywalker.

Biography

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.

Translations

Death's End (死神永生, 2010) by Liu Cixin, Published by Tor Books, September 2016

Three Body (三体, 2008) by Liu Cixin, published by Tor Books as The Three-Body Problem, November 2014

"The Flowers of Shazui" by Chen Qiufan, Interzone, November 2012

"Taking Care of God" by Liu Cixin (online), Pathlight, March 2012

"A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight" by Xia Jia (online), Clarkesworld Magazine, February 2012

"The City of Silence" by Ma Boyong (online), World SF Blog, November 2011

"The Mark Twain Robots" by Ma Boyong, TRSF (September 2011), a special publication of MIT's Technology Review

"The Fish of Lijiang" by Chen Qiufan (online), Clarkesworld Magazine, August 2011

Awards and honors

2017 World Fantasy Award, nominee, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Best Collection

2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel, winner, "The Three-Body Problem (三体)" by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu

2015 Sidewise Award for Alternate History, winner, "The Long Haul: From the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009"

2015 Locus Award for Best Novella, finalist, "The Regular"

2015 Theodore Sturgeon Award, finalist, "The Regular"

2014 Nebula Award for Best Novel, nominee, "The Three-Body Problem (三体)" by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu

2014 Nebula Award for Best Novella, nominee, "The Regular"

2014 Sidewise Award for Alternate History, nominee, "A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel"

2014 Locus Award for Best Short Story, finalist, "A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel"

2013 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, winner, "Mono no aware"

2013 Locus Award for Best Short Story, finalist, "Mono no aware"

2013 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, nominee, "‘‘The Litigation Master and the Monkey King"

2013 FantLab's Book of the Year Award for best Translated Novella or Short Story, winner, "Mono no aware"

2013 FantLab's Book of the Year Award for best On-line publication in Small Form', winner, "The Paper Menagerie"

2013 Theodore Sturgeon Award, finalist, "The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species" and "Mono no aware"

2012 Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards, Short Form winner, translation from the Chinese of "The Fish of Lijiang" by Chen Qiufan

2012 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, nominee, "The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species"

2012 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, nominee, "The Waves"

2012 Nebula Award for Best Novella, nominee, "All the Flavors"

2012 Theodore Sturgeon Award, finalist, "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" and "The Paper Menagerie"

2012 Locus Award for Best Short Story, finalist, "The Paper Menagerie"

2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction, winner, "The Paper Menagerie"

2012 Hugo Award for Best Novella, nominee, "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary"

2012 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, winner, "The Paper Menagerie"

2011 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, winner, "The Paper Menagerie"

2011 Nebula Award for Best Novella, nominee, "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary"