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    PEOPLE & POINTS

    Nov 09, 2023 3 minutes

    SCI-FI WRITER WINS TOP AWARD

    Chinese author Hai Ya took home the Best Novelette award of the 2023 Hugo Awards, the world’s top prize for science fiction literature, at the 81st World Science Fiction Convention in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, on October 21.

    Hai won the award for The Space-Time Painter, inspired by Song Dynasty (960-1279) landscape painting masterpiece A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains by Wang Ximeng. Hai wove the story of Wang’s life into a thriller that combines elements of traditional Chinese culture and history with sci-fi and detective genres.

    Beginning his career in the financial industry, Hai started writing sci-fi stories in 2016 and published his first work in

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