Ted Chiang

American science fiction writer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1967 · age 59

Ted Chiang is an American science fiction writer, whose work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards. He has published the short story collections Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) and Exhalation: Stories (2019).

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2020Locus Award for Best CollectionAwardLocus Award for Best NoveletteAward2011Hugo Award for Best NovellaAward2010Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign-Language Short StoryAward2009Hugo Award for Best Short StoryAward2008BSFA Award for Best Short FictionAwardNebula Award for Best NoveletteAward2007Bob Morane award for best short storyAward2003Locus Award for Best CollectionAward2002Locus Award for Best NoveletteAward2000Nebula Award for Best NovellaAwardSidewise Award for Alternate HistoryAward1992Astounding Award for Best New WriterAward1991Nebula Award for Best NoveletteAward1967Born20 October 1967

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Awards

Locus Award for Best Novelette2020

Locus Award for Best Collection2020

Locus Award for Best Novella2011

Hugo Award for Best Novella2011

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign-Language Short Story2010

Locus Award for Best Short Story2009

Hugo Award for Best Short Story2009

Nebula Award for Best Novelette2008

Hugo Award for Best Novelette2008

BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction2008

Bob Morane award for best short story2007

Locus Award for Best Collection2003

Nebula Award for Best Novelette2003

Locus Award for Best Novelette2002

Hugo Award for Best Novelette2002

Nebula Award for Best Novella2000

Sidewise Award for Alternate History2000

Theodore Sturgeon Award1999

Astounding Award for Best New Writer1992

Nebula Award for Best Novelette1991

Hayakawa Award

About this person

His short story "Story of Your Life" was the basis of the film Arrival (2016). He was an artist in residence at the University of Notre Dame from 2020 to 2021. Chiang is also a frequent non-fiction contributor to the New Yorker, where he writes on topics related to computing such as artificial intelligence.

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United States