![]() ![]() The German translation (which included some portions of the original text not included in the English translation) followed in 2016. Liu Cixin thus became the first author from Asia to win Best Novel. American author Ken Liu's 2014 translation (published by Tor Books) won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Liu's most famous work, The Three-Body Problem, was published in 2007 (it is the first novel in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy). He was labeled the first cyberpunk Chinese author after his novel, China 2185, was published in 1989. Liu cites English authors George Orwell and Arthur C. He then worked as a computer engineer at a power plant in Shanxi province. Liu graduated from the North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power in 1988. Due to the violence of the Cultural Revolution he was sent to live in his ancestral home in Luoshan County, Henan. Liu was born on 23 June 1963 in Beijing and raised in Yangquan, Shanxi, where his parents had been sent to work in the mines. He is sometimes called "Da Liu" ("Big Liu") by his fellow science fiction writers in China. He is a member of China Science Writers Association and the vice president of Shanxi Writers Association. In English translations of his works, his name is given as Cixin Liu. He is also a winner of the Chinese Nebula Award. He is a nine-time winner of China's Galaxy Award and has also received the 2015 Hugo Award for his novel The Three-Body Problem as well as the 2017 Locus Award for Death's End. Liu Cixin ( Chinese: 刘慈欣, pronounced born 23 June 1963) is a Chinese computer engineer and science fiction writer. North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power ![]()
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