Nationality Chinese Name Liu Cixin Awards Hugo Award for Best Novel | Genre Hard science fiction Movies The Three-Body Problem Period 1999-present Role Fiction writer | |
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Born June 23, 1963 (age 60)
Yangquan, Shanxi, China ( 1963-06-23 ) Occupation Science fiction writer, engineer Nominations Nebula Award for Best Novel Books The Three‑Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death's End, Three Body II: Dark Forest, Dead End | ||
Notable works The Three-Body Trilogy Upcoming movie The Three-Body Problem | ||
Liu cixin s hit trilogy to be published in english
Liu Cixin (simplified Chinese: 刘慈欣; traditional Chinese: 劉慈欣; pinyin: Liú Cíxīn, IPA: [ljǒu tsʰɨ̌ɕín]; born 1963) is a Chinese science fiction writer. He is a nine-time winner of the Galaxy Award (China's most prestigious literary science fiction award) and winner of the Hugo Award. Liu's work is considered hard science fiction. In English translations of his works, his name is given in the form Cixin Liu.
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Life
Liu Cixin was born on 23 June 1963 in Yangquan, Shanxi. Liu's parents worked in a mine in Shanxi. Due to the violence of the Cultural Revolution he was sent to live in his ancestral home in Luoshan County, Henan.
Liu received technical training from North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power, graduating in 1988. He has worked as a computer engineer for a power plant located in Yangquan, Shanxi.
Liu is married and has a daughter. His wife and daughter almost never read his works.
Writing
Liu's most famous work, The Three-Body Problem, was published in 2007. It was translated into English by Ken Liu and published by Tor Books in November 2014, and won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel. He was the first Asian writer to win "Best Novel". A translation into German, which included some portions of the original text not included in the English translation, followed in 2016.
A film adaptation of The Three-Body Problem is scheduled to be released in 2017.