Author

R.F. Kuang

5 award wins, 2 nominations across 4 books.

Rebecca F. Kuang is a Chinese-American fantasy writer. Her first novel, *The Poppy War*, was released in 2018, followed by the sequels *The Dragon Republic* in 2019 and *The Burning God* in 2020. Kuang has won the Compton Crook Award, the Crawford Award, and the 2020 Astounding Award for Best New Writer, along with being a finalist for the Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, The Kitschies, and British Fantasy awards for her first novel.

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Babel

3 Awards Won1 Nomination

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire.

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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

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Awards & Nominations
Nebula Award
2022
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Katabasis

1 Nomination
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Awards & Nominations
Nebula Award
2025
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Yellowface

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