Ha Jin
Ha Jin is a Chinese American writer known for his plain, unadorned English prose that explores the tension between the individual and the family, the modern and the traditional, and personal feelings and duty. He grew up during the Cultural Revolution in China, served in the People's Liberation Army, and later came to the United States to pursue his doctorate. After the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, he decided to remain in the U.S. and began writing in English. He is a professor of English at Boston University.
Awards
['PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel (1997)', 'National Book Award for Fiction (1999)', 'PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2000)', 'PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2005)', "Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (1996)", 'Guggenheim Fellowship (1999)', 'Asian Fellowship (2000–2002)', 'Townsend Prize for Fiction (2002)', 'Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)', 'Dayton Literary Peace Prize, runner-up, Nanjing Requiem (2012)', 'PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award for A Distant Center (2019)', 'Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award (2021)']
Notable Works
['Waiting', 'War Trash', 'Ocean of Words', 'Under the Red Flag', 'A Free Life', 'Nanjing Requiem', 'The Boat Rocker', 'A Song Everlasting']
