1. Liu Cixin is a Chinese computer engineer and science fiction writer.
13 Facts About Liu Cixin
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Liu Cixin is sometimes called "Da Liu" by his fellow science fiction writers in China.
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Liu Cixin is a nine-time winner of China's Galaxy Award, and has received the 2015 Hugo Award for his novel The Three-Body Problem, as well as the 2017 Locus Award for Death's End.
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Liu Cixin is a member of the China Science Writers Association and the vice president of the Shanxi Writers Association.
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Liu Cixin grew up in Yangquan, Shanxi, where his parents had been sent to work in the mines.
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Liu Cixin then worked as a computer engineer at a power plant in Shanxi province.
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Liu Cixin was labeled the first cyberpunk Chinese author after his novel China 2185 was released in 1989.
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Liu Cixin thus became the first author from Asia to win Best Novel.
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Ken Liu Cixin translated the third volume of The Three-Body Problem series, Death's End, in 2016.
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Liu Cixin's fiction focuses primarily on problems such as social inequality, scientific development and ecological limitations that impact humanity.
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Liu Cixin would serve as a consulting producer on the project.
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Liu Cixin's works contain various subtle and plot-wide criticisms of actions of the Chinese Communist Party.
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In one such case, Liu Cixin moved a brutal struggle session from where it was hidden in the middle of the book to the beginning of The Three-Body Problems English translation, when suggested by his translator, Ken Liu Cixin.