R.F. Kuang, 1996
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R.F. Kuang, 1996
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R.F. Kuang is 30 years old, born May 29, 1996 in Guangzhou · Gemini.
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R.F. Kuang writes fantasy novels that crack bestseller lists and win major awards. Born in China and raised in Texas, she studied Sinology at Cambridge and Oxford as a Marshall Scholar. Her 2022 novel Babel, or the Necessity of Violence hit #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list and won the Nebula Award for Best Novel. Gemini energy: restless, intellectually hungry, drawn to worlds built on language and power.
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R.F. Kuang is a Chinese-American fantasy writer whose debut novel Babel, or the Necessity of Violence became a cultural moment — it topped The New York Times Best Seller list and won the 2022 Nebula Award for Best Novel. Born May 29, 1996, in China, Kuang grew up in Texas before attending Cambridge and Oxford University on a Marshall Scholar fellowship to study Sinology. Her work interrogates empire, translation, and the violence embedded in language systems; Babel uses alternate-history fantasy to argue that knowledge is never neutral. Beyond Babel, she has won or been shortlisted for numerous awards, establishing herself as a major voice in contemporary fantasy. As a Gemini, she channels the sign's gift for language and duality — her novels consistently split perspective, letting readers inhabit contradictory truths. Writers often spend years developing single projects; Kuang's focus on historical depth and linguistic precision reflects that slow-burn craft. US-born, she brings diasporic consciousness to her work without exoticizing it — she writes as an insider to the cultures she explores, grounding fantasy in real colonial and intellectual histories.
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Kuang was born in China and relocated to Texas during childhood. She pursued Sinology at Cambridge and Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar, an academic track that shaped her later preoccupation with language, translation, and the politics of knowledge systems that would animate her fiction.
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Restless and adventurous. R.F. Kuang reinvent often: new sounds, new platforms, new cities. Expect career pivots over decades.
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