Xia Jia 夏笳 (Wang Yao 王瑶) | |
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.jpg) Xia at the Hugo Award Ceremony at Worldcon in Helsinki, 2017 | |
| Born | 2 June 1984 |
| Citizenship | China |
| Education | PhD in Comparative Literature and World Literature, Peking University |
| Occupation(s) | Science Fiction Writer, University Lecturer |
| Notable work | The Demon-Enslaving Flask; A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight; Spring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy. |
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| Simplified Chinese | 王瑶 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 王瑤 | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 夏笳 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 夏笳 | ||||||
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Wang Yao (Chinese: 王瑶; pinyin: Wáng Yáo; born 2 June 1984), known by the pen name Xia Jia (Chinese: 夏笳; pinyin: Xià Jiā), is a Chinese science fiction and fantasy writer. After receiving her Ph.D. in comparative literature and world literature at Department of Chinese, Peking University in 2014, she is currently a lecturer of Chinese literature at Xi'an Jiaotong University.
Xia Jia's short fiction works have won eight Galaxy Awards for Chinese Science Fiction, six Nebula Awards for Science Fiction and Fantasy in Chinese. One of her short stories received honorable mention for 2013 Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards.[1] Her stories have been published in Nature, Clarkesworld Magazine, Year's Best SF, SF Magazine as well as influential Chinese sci-fi magazine Science Fiction World. Besides those written in Chinese and English, her works have been translated into Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Polish.