Professor
Xuefei (Ha) Jin
Boston University
Writer; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature
Elected
2006
Professor of English at Boston University. Won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2000 for Waiting and in 2005 for War Trash. Other awards include the National Book Award (1999 for Waiting), the PEN/Hemingway Award (1998 for Ocean of Words), and the Flannery O'Connor Award (1998 for Under the Red Flag). His poetry is associated with the Misty Poetry Movement. Much of his fiction is set in his homeland, China. He writes in English but his work is published in many languages.
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