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Ma Boyong 馬伯庸

Ma Boyong (b.1980) is one of the most prolific and critically acclaimed young novelists in China, best known for his wicked wit and subversive take on genre tropes. Winner of the People’s Literature Prize, Zhu Ziqing Prose Award, and the Galaxy Award, he has written over a dozen novels, and some of them was adapted into hit TV series. Two of his stories have been translated into English by Ken Liu.​ The foreign rights to his previous novel, THE ZOO AT THE END OF THE WORLD, have been sold to Korea, Russia, Spain and Italy.