Ted Chiang | |||||||||||
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![]() Chiang in 2011 | |||||||||||
Native name | 姜峯楠 | ||||||||||
Born | 1967 (age 57–58) Port Jefferson, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||
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Alma mater | Brown University (BS) | ||||||||||
Period | 1990–present | ||||||||||
Genre | Science fiction, fantasy | ||||||||||
Notable works | ‟Tower of Babylon” (1990) ‟Story of Your Life” (1998) ‟Hell is the Absence of God” (2001) Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) ‟The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate” (2007) Exhalation: Stories (2019) | ||||||||||
Notable awards | See list | ||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 姜峯楠 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 姜峰楠 | ||||||||||
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Ted Chiang (Chinese: 姜峯楠; born 1967) is an American science fiction writer. His work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards.[1] He has published the short story collections Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) and Exhalation: Stories (2019). 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 in 2020–2021.[2] Chiang is also a frequent non-fiction contributor to the New Yorker, where he writes on topics related to computing such as artificial intelligence.