No. 6 Jin Xuefei

Introduction

Jin Xuefei (pen name Ha Jin) is a Chinese American writer. He was born in Liaoning, China. He came to America in 1984 and began to write about China only in English. He published his first book of poems, Between Silences, in 1990. After June 4^th incident in China in 1989, he decided to stay in the US and finished his Ph.D. in 1992.

Selected Works

• Between Silences (poetry) (1990)
• Ocean of Words (short stories) (1996)
• Under the Red Flag (short stories) (1997)
• Waiting (novel) (1999)
• War Trash (novel) (2004)
• The Writer as Migrant (essays) (2008)

Recognition&Awards

Ha Jin is the winner for numerous awards. Many of his short stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories anthologies. He has won the National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel, Waiting (1999). Ocean of Words (1996) has been awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award . The novel War Trash (2004) won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Influences

He sets all of his stories in China and increased western attention to Chinese culture and history. He lives in the chaos of communist in China and his poetry collections and novels provide a new perspective for the Americans to look at China. English is Ha Jin’s second language, which is different from other A/PIA writers, and most of his books are written in English. He is one of the three writers in history that won Faulkner Award two times. He is the first Chinese American who won the National Book Award and is well known in the English literary world. (Wikipedia)