Ha Jin

Dorothy Creco

Ha Jin came to the United States in 1985 and has been writing
mainly in English since the early 1990s. To date, he has published four volumes of poetry, four collections of short fiction, eleven novels, and two books of nonfiction. He lives outside Boston.

Books by this author

Awards and Honors

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Townsend Prize for Fiction

National Book Award

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction

Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction

Finalist, Pulitzer Prize

PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, 2019

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences