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R F Kuang


China (b.1996)

aka Rebecca F Kuang

R. F. Kuang immigrated to the United States from Guangzhou, China in 2000. She now studies Asian history at Georgetown University, where her research focuses on Chinese military strategy, collective trauma, and war memorials. She graduated from Odyssey Writing Workshop in 2016 and attended the CSSF Novel Writing Workshop in 2017. Her debut novel, The Poppy War, is the first installment in a trilogy that grapples with drugs, shamanism, and China's bloody twentieth century.
 

Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Mystery
 
Series
Poppy War
   1. The Poppy War (2018)
   2. The Dragon Republic (2019)
   3. The Burning God (2020)
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Novels
   Babel (2022)
   Yellowface (2023)
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Kaikeyi (2022)
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The Chosen and the Beautiful (2021)
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Anthologies containing stories by R F Kuang
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The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories (2022)
edited by
Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang
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From a Certain Point of View: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (2020)
(Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View, book 2)

Awards
John W. Campbell Best Book nominee (2019) : The Poppy War
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (2019) : The Poppy War
John W. Campbell Best Book nominee (2020) : The Poppy War


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