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Ha Jin(born Feb. 21, 1956, Jinzhou, China) Chinese-U.S. writer. He joined the army at age 14. He received a doctorate at Brandeis University in the U.S., where he remained. His book of stories Under the Red Flag (1997) concerns the Cultural Revolution. His novel Waiting (1999), about Chinese society, won the National Book Award, as well as the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. |
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| Some of the highlights include the National Book Critics Award (Maxine Hong Kingston 1976: Bharati Mukherjee 1988), the PEN/Hemingway Award (Chang-Rae Lee 1995; Ha Jin 1996), the National Book Award (Ha Jin 1999), the PEN/Faulkner Award (Ha Jin 2000), the Pulitzer Prize (Jhumpa Lahiri 2000), numerous American Book Awards, and more. Her second readings, a week later, were ``Saboteur'' by Ha Jin and ``At the Anarchists' Convention'' by John Sayles. This year's lineup features authors Sherman Alexie, Giocanda Belli, Julia Cameron, Mark Danielewski, Joie Davidow, Chitra Divakaruni, Maria Escadon, Helen Fielding, Aleksandar Hemon, Ha Jin, Chang-rae Lee, Edna O'Brien, Michael Palin, Francine Prose, Rachel Resnick, Elissa Schappel, Cybill Shepherd, Nicholas Sparks and Ilan Stavans. |
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