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Ha Jin 哈金 Born 金雪飞 (1956-02-21) February 21, 1956 (age 64) Liaoning, China Pen name Ha Jin Occupation Poet, novelist, teacher Nationality United States Education Doctor of Philosophy Alma mater Heilongjiang University Shandong University Brandeis University Genre Poetry, short story, novel, essay Subjects China Notable works List The Boat Rocker Waiting In the Pond War Trash Ocean of Words The Bridegroom Notable awards List Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (1996) Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award (1997) Guggenheim Fellowship (1999) National Book Award (1999) PEN/Faulkner Award (2000) Asian Fellowship (2000–2002) Townsend Prize for Fiction (2002) PEN/Faulkner Award (2005) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) Dayton Literary Peace Prize, runner-up, Nanjing Requiem (2012) Signature Xuefei Jin (simplified Chinese: 金雪飞; traditional Chinese: 金雪飛; pinyin: Jīn Xuěfēi; born February 21, 1956) is a Chinese-American poet and novelist using the pen name Ha Jin (哈金). Ha comes from his favorite city, Harbin. His poetry is associated with the Misty Poetry movement.[1] Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Awards and honors 4 Books 4.1 Poetry 4.2 Short story collections 4.3 Novels 4.4 Biographies 4.5 Essays 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Early life[edit] Ha Jin was born in Liaoning, China. His father was a military officer; at thirteen, Jin joined the People's Liberation Army during the Cultural Revolution. Jin began to educate himself in Chinese literature and high school curriculum at sixteen. He left the army when he was nineteen,[2] as he entered Heilongjiang University and earned a bachelor's degree in English studies. This was followed by a master's degree in Anglo-American literature at Shandong University. Jin grew up in the chaos of early communist China. He was on a scholarship at Brandeis University when the 1989 Tiananmen incident occurred. The Chinese government's forcible put-down hastened his decision to emigrate to the United States, and was the cause of his choice to write in English "to preserve the integrity of his work." He eventually obtained a Ph.D. Career[edit] Jin sets many of his stories and novels in China, in the fictional Muji City. He has won the National Book Award for Fiction[3] and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel, Waiting (1999). He has received three Pushcart Prizes for fiction and a Kenyon Review Prize. Many of his short stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories anthologies. His collection Under The Red Flag (1997) won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, while Ocean of Words (1996) has been awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award. The novel War Trash (2004), set during the Korean War, won a second PEN/Faulkner Award for Jin, thus ranking him with Philip Roth, John Edgar Wideman and E. L. Doctorow who are the only other authors to have won the prize more than once. War Trash was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Jin currently teaches at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. He formerly taught at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Jin was a Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow for Fiction at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, in the fall of 2008. He was inducted to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2014. Awards and honors[edit] Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (1996) Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award (1997) Guggenheim Fellowship (1999) National Book Award (1999)[3] PEN/Faulkner Award (2000) Asian Fellowship (2000–2002) Townsend Prize for Fiction (2002) PEN/Faulkner Award (2005) Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) Dayton Literary Peace Prize, runner-up, Nanjing Requiem (2012)[4] PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award for A Distant Center (2019) Books[edit] Poetry[edit] Between Silences (1990) Facing Shadows (1996) Ways of Talking (1996) Wreckage (2001) Missed Time The Past A Distant Center (2018, Copper Canyon Press) Short story collections[edit] Ocean of Words (1996) Under the Red Flag (1997) The Bridegroom (2000) A Good Fall (2009) Novels[edit] In the Pond (1998) Waiting (1999) The Crazed (2002) War Trash (2004) A Free Life (2007) Nanjing Requiem (2011) A Map of Betrayal (2014) The Boat Rocker (2016) Biographies[edit] The Banished Immortal (2019) Essays[edit] The Writer as Migrant (2008) See also[edit] Poetry portal Saboteur (short story) (2000) References[edit] ^ A Brief Guide to Misty Poets Archived 2010-04-12 at the Wayback Machine ^ "Ha Jin" Archived 2010-01-31 at the Wayback Machine. Bookreporter. ^ a b "National Book Awards – 1999" Archived 2018-11-24 at the Wayback Machine. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-27. (With acceptance speech by Jin and essay by Ru Freeman from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) ^ Julie Bosman (September 30, 2012). "Winners Named for Dayton Literary Peace Prize". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2012-10-02. Retrieved 2012-09-30. John Noell Moore, "The Landscape Of Divorce When Worlds Collide," The English Journal 92 (Nov. 2002), pp. 124–127. Ha Jin, Waiting (New York: Pantheon Books, 1999) Neil J Diamant, Revolutionizing the Family: Politics, Love and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, 1949-1968(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000), p. 59. Ha Jin, The bridegroom (New York: Pantheon Books, 2000) Yuejin Wang, Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 13 (Dec. 1991) Ha Jin, "Exiled to English" (New York Times, May 30, 2009) External links[edit] "Ha Jin, The Art of Fiction No. 202". The Paris Review (Interview) (191). Interviewed by Sarah Fay. Winter 2009. "The Bridegroom". Bookworm (Interview). Interviewed by Michael Silverblatt. KCRW. January 2001. Listen to Ha Jin on The Forum from the BBC World Service Boston University staff page Author interview in Guernica Magazine (guernicamag.com) Ha Jin audio interview re: A Free Life, November 2007 Exiled to English Audio: Ha Jin in conversation on the BBC World Service discussion programme The Forum "Ha Jin's Cultural Revolution" - New York Times Magazine profile (2000). Ha Jin at Library of Congress Authorities — with 20 catalog records v t e National Book Award for Fiction (1975–1999) Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone (1975) The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams (1975) J R by William Gaddis (1976) The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner (1977) Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle (1978) Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien (1979) Sophie's Choice by William Styron (1980) The World According to Garp by John Irving (1980) Plains Song: For Female Voices by Wright Morris (1981) The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (1981) Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (1982) So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (1982) The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1983) The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty (1983) Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist (1984) White Noise by Don DeLillo (1985) World's Fair by E. L. Doctorow (1986) Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann (1987) Paris Trout by Pete Dexter (1988) Spartina by John Casey (1989) Middle Passage by Charles Johnson (1990) Mating by Norman Rush (1991) All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (1992) The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (1993) A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis (1994) Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth (1995) Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett (1996) Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1997) Charming Billy by Alice McDermott (1998) Waiting by Ha Jin (1999) Complete list (1950–1974) (1975–1999) (2000–2024) Authority control BIBSYS: 1091675 BNE: XX1134376 BNF: cb14420433w (data) CANTIC: a20190335 CiNii: DA05435758 GND: 122370228 ICCU: IT\ICCU\TO0V\386337 ISNI: 0000 0001 1455 2285 LCCN: n89118088 NDL: 00829648 NKC: jn20020126007 NLA: 40965995 NLK: KAC200606037 NLP: A16386140 NTA: 169131432 PLWABN: 9810630002605606 RERO: 02-A012079346 SELIBR: 225482 SNAC: w6sj8wmb SUDOC: 058940405 VIAF: 111746273 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n89118088 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ha_Jin&oldid=996998788" Categories: 1956 births Living people 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American poets 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American poets American male novelists American male poets American male short story writers American novelists of Chinese descent American short story writers of Chinese descent Boston University faculty Brandeis University alumni Chinese emigrants to the United States Chinese male novelists Emory University faculty Exophonic writers Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction winners National Book Award winners PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winners Postmodern writers Misty poets Shandong University alumni Educators from Liaoning Poets from Liaoning Writers from Liaoning Novelists from Massachusetts Novelists from Georgia (U.S. state) Hidden categories: Webarchive template wayback links Articles containing simplified Chinese-language text Articles containing traditional Chinese-language text Articles containing Chinese-language text Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers Wikipedia articles with CINII identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ICCU identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NDL identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLK identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLP identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with RERO identifiers Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages العربية تۆرکجه Català Deutsch Español Esperanto فارسی Français 한국어 हिन्दी Italiano עברית Қазақша Latina Македонски 日本語 Norsk bokmål Русский Simple English Suomi Svenska 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 29 December 2020, at 15:18 (UTC). 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