Hao Jingfang (; born 27 July 1984) is a Chinese

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writer. She won the

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for '' Folding Beijing'', translated by

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, at the 2016

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Biography

Hao Jingfang was born in

Tianjin Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popul ...

, on July 27, 1984. After high school, she studied, then worked, at

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, in the area of physics. After noticing the

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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

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for Best Novelette for her work '' Folding Beijing''. She became the first Chinese woman to win a Hugo Award. ''Vagabonds'' was shortlisted for the 2021

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Personal life

Hao is married and has a daughter.

Original Works

Short Stories

# ''The Last Brave Man'' (最后一个勇敢的人) # ''Invisible Planets'' (看不见的星球) 2013 (

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) # ''The New Year Train'' (过年回家)

Novella

# ''Folding Beijing'' (北京折叠) 2015 (

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)

Novel

# ''Vagabonds'' (流浪苍穹). Head of Zeus. 2020 .

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hao, Jingfang Living people Chinese science fiction writers 21st-century Chinese novelists Chinese women novelists Hugo Award-winning writers Yaohua High School alumni Tsinghua University alumni 21st-century Chinese women writers Writers from Tianjin 1984 births