曹维倩

Zen Cho

生卒: 1986 –
国籍: 马来西亚
外文名: Zen Cho

生平与创作

曹维倩（英语：Zen Cho），旅居于英国伯明翰的马来西亚华裔奇幻作家。她凭借短篇小说集《国外烈酒》于2015年并列获得克劳福德奖。

以上文字摘自维基百科「曹维倩」（去掉了参考文献等尾部小节），按 CC BY-SA 4.0 使用，作者为维基百科的各位编者。

中文维基百科的条目比较短，下面附上英文维基百科的内容（英文原文）：

Zen Cho (born 1986) is a Malaysian fantasy author. She is known for her Sorcerer to the Crown series. She was the joint winner of the 2015 Crawford Award for her short story collection Spirits Abroad. The expanded edition of Spirits Abroad: Stories received the 2021 Ray Bradbury Prize.

Background and education

Zen Cho was born in Selangor, Malaysia. She spent a brief period of time in the United States as a child, but was raised in Malaysia. She moved to the United Kingdom at 18 to attend university, where she met her husband. Cho earned a law degree from University of Cambridge.

Career

Cho began publishing genre fiction in 2010. Many of those stories were republished in her debut short story collection, Spirits Abroad, originally published by Fixi Novo in 2014. The book won the 2015 Crawford Award in a tie with The Angel of Losses by Stephanie Feldman.

In 2013, she was a finalist for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer.

Cho's debut novel, Sorcerer to the Crown, was published in 2015 by Ace Books. The book is the first of a series of historical fantasy novels. It won the 2016 British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer. It was a finalist for the 2016 Locus Award for Best First Novel. The novel's sequel, The True Queen, was published by Ace Books in 2019. The series was listed as "One of NPR’s 50 Favorite Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of the Past Decade".

Her novelette "If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again", published by the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog, won the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.

Spirits Abroad: Stories, expanded edition, was published in August 2021 by Small Beer Press. The collection contains nine additional stories, including novelettes “The Terracotta Bride” and “If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again”. It was a finalist for the 2022 Locus Award. The book was awarded the 2021 Ray Bradbury Prize by the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.