Hao Jingfang | |
|---|---|
郝景芳 | |
 Hao Jingfang in 2017 | |
| Born | July 27, 1984 |
| Education | Tsinghua University |
| Occupations | Economy researcher Novelist |
| Children | 1, daughter |
| Writing career | |
| Language | Chinese |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Notable work | Folding Beijing |
| Notable awards | Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Folding Beijing |
Hao Jingfang (Chinese: 郝景芳; pinyin: Hǎo Jǐngfāng; born 27 July 1984) is a Chinese science fiction writer. She won the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Folding Beijing, translated by Ken Liu.
Hao Jingfang was born in Tianjin, on 27 July 1984. After high school, she studied, then worked, at Tsinghua University, in the area of physics. After noticing the economic inequality of China, she studied economics in Tsinghua University, obtained a doctoral degree in 2013, and has worked as a researcher at China Development Research Foundation since then.
In 2002, as a high school student, she won the first prize at the 4th national high school "New Concept" writing competition (新概念作文大赛). In 2016, she won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for her work Folding Beijing. She became the first Chinese woman to win a Hugo Award.
Vagabonds was shortlisted for the 2021 Arthur C. Clarke Award.
In June 2026 Hao sparked heated debate after revealing that "half" of her latest work (namely the final two books in her five-volume children's science fiction series entitled Galaxy Academy) was "written with AI," stating that "readers can't tell which parts."
Hao is married and has a daughter.
