Liu Cixin

Cixin Liu is a Chinese science fiction writer. He is a nine-time winner of the Galaxy Award (China’s most prestigious literary science fiction award), winner of the highly esteemed Hugo Award in 2015 (for The Three-Body Problem) and the 2017 Locus Award (for Death’s End) as well as a nominee for the Nebula Award. Although properly known as Liu Cixin (刘慈欣 | 劉慈欣), in English translations of his works his name is given in the form Cixin Liu.