# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ken-liu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:07:51.115Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ken-liu"
name: "Ken Liu"
slug: "ken-liu"
description: "Kenneth Yukun Liu is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. Liu has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards for his fiction, which has appeared in F&SF, Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Reactor, Uncanny Magazine and multiple \"Year's Best\" anthologies."
tagline: "Chinese-American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ken_Liu_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1976"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.03
  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.83974533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  226
  category: 222
platforms:
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    handle:    "kyliu99"
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/kyliu99/"
    handle:    "kyliu99"
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/authorkenliu"
    handle:    "authorkenliu"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7408787/"
    handle:    "nm7408787"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://kenliu.name/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ken Liu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ken Liu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "കെൻ ലിയു"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Лю, Кен"
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    title: "Кен Лю"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1990221"
    title: "Ken Liu"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump