Chinese female writer nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel

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Folding Beijing, a science fiction written by Chinese female writer Hao Jingfang, has beenincluded in this year's shortlist of the Hugo Award for Best Novel.

However, The Three-Body Problem II by Liu Cixin, who won the 2015 Hugo Award for BestNovel with The Three-Body Problem I, failed to enter the shortlist, according to the preliminaryresults of the 74th Hugo Award released on Wednesday.

Responding to the announcement, Hao updated her Weibo account, saying she wassurprised by the nomination since the novel was first published in a newly founded onlinemagazine.

The writer especially thanked the translator of the novel, whom she accredited for theincreased popularity of her work.

She also expressed regret for Liu's exclusion from this year's list and praised him for boostingthe export of Chinese sci-fi works to foreign countries.Liu was the first Asian writer to win the Hugo Award, which is widely seen as the highesthonor for science fictions, along with the Nebula Awards.

(CHINADAILY)