Author

R. F. Kuang

Marshall Scholar, Yale PhD candidate in East Asian Languages and Literatures, and New York Times bestselling author of The Poppy War trilogy and Babel

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Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times bestselling and Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Award nominated author of Babel, the Poppy War trilogy, and the forthcoming Yellowface. She is a Marshall Scholar, translator, and has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale.

Born1996 · Guangzhou, China

Notable works The Poppy WarBabelKatabasis

That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say.— Babel (2022)