Hao Jingfang

1984–

Hao Jingfang was born in Tianjin, China. She studied physics at Tsinghua University in Beijing before turning to economics, and completed her doctorate there in 2013, the year she became a researcher at the China Development Research Foundation. She has combined that career with writing fiction. Her novel Vagabonds, which follows a group of young Martians returning home after years of study on Earth, draws on two earlier Chinese novels; translated into English by Ken Liu and published in 2020, it was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2021. She is married with a daughter.

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