Ha Jin 哈金
Born	(1956-02-21)February 21, 1956 (age 69) Liaoning, China
Pen name	Ha Jin
Occupation	Poet novelist teacher
Nationality	American
Education	Heilongjiang University (BA) Shandong University (MA) Brandeis University (PhD)
Genre	Poetry,short story, novel, essay
Subjects	China
Notable works	List The Boat Rocker Waiting In the Pond War Trash Ocean of Words The Bridegroom
Notable awards	List Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (1996) Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award (1997) Guggenheim Fellowship (1999) National Book Award (1999) PEN/Faulkner Award (2000) Asian Fellowship (2000–2002) Townsend Prize for Fiction (2002) PEN/Faulkner Award (2005) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) Dayton Literary Peace Prize, runner-up, Nanjing Requiem (2012)
Spouse	Lisha Bian
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Jin Xuefei (simplified Chinese:金雪飞;traditional Chinese:金雪飛;pinyin:Jīn Xuěfēi; born February 21, 1956) is aChinese American poet and novelist who uses the pen nameHa Jin (哈金). The nameHa comes from his favorite city,Harbin. His poetry is associated with theMisty Poetry movement.^[1]

Ha Jin was born inLiaoning, China. His father was a military officer; at thirteen, Jin joined thePeople's Liberation Army during theCultural Revolution. Jin began to educate himself in Chinese literature and high school curriculum at sixteen. He left the army when he was nineteen^[2] as he enteredHeilongjiang University, later earning abachelor's degree in English studies. This was followed by amaster's degree in Anglo-American literature atShandong University.

Jin grew up in the chaos of early communist China. He was on a scholarship atBrandeis University when the1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre occurred. The Chinese government's forcible crackdown hastened his decision toemigrate to the United States, and was the cause of his choice to write in English "to preserve the integrity of his work." He eventually obtained aPh.D. One of his mentors was literary criticEugene Goodheart.^[3]

Jin sets many of his stories and novels in China, in the fictional Muji City. He has won theNational Book Award for Fiction^[4] and thePEN/Faulkner Award for his novel,Waiting (1999). He has received threePushcart Prizes for fiction and aKenyon Review Award. Many of his short stories have appeared inThe Best American Short Stories anthologies. His collectionUnder the Red Flag (1997) won theFlannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, whileOcean of Words (1996) has been awarded thePEN/Hemingway Award. The novelWar Trash (2004), set during theKorean War, won a secondPEN/Faulkner Award for Jin, thus ranking him withPhilip Roth,John Edgar Wideman andE. L. Doctorow as the only other authors to have won the prize more than once.War Trash was also a finalist for thePulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Jin currently teaches atBoston University inBoston,Massachusetts. He formerly taught atEmory University inAtlanta,Georgia.

Jin was a Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow for Fiction at theAmerican Academy in Berlin,Germany, in the fall of 2008. He was inducted to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2014.

On July 28, 2021, an asteroid was named after him: (58495) Hajin.^[5]

• Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (1996)
• PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel (1997)
• Guggenheim Fellowship (1999)
• National Book Award for Fiction (1999)^[4]
• PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2000)
• Asian Fellowship (2000–2002)
• Townsend Prize for Fiction (2002)
• PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2005)
• Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)
• Dayton Literary Peace Prize, runner-up,Nanjing Requiem (2012)^[6]
• PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award forA Distant Center (2019)

• Saboteur (short story) (2000)

1. John Noell Moore, "The Landscape Of Divorce When Worlds Collide," The English Journal 92 (Nov. 2002), pp. 124–127.
2. Ha Jin,Waiting (New York: Pantheon Books, 1999).
3. Neil J Diamant,Revolutionizing the Family: Politics, Love and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, 1949-1968(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000), p. 59.
4. Ha Jin,The Bridegroom (New York: Pantheon Books, 2000).
5. Yuejin Wang, Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 13 (Dec. 1991).
6. Ha Jin, "Exiled to English" (New York Times, May 30, 2009).

• "Ha Jin, The Art of Fiction No. 202".The Paris Review (Interview). No. 191. Interviewed by Sarah Fay. Winter 2009.
• "The Bridegroom".Bookworm (Interview). Interviewed byMichael Silverblatt. KCRW. January 2001.
• Listen to Ha Jin on The Forum from the BBC World Service
• Boston University staff page
• Author interview in Guernica Magazine (guernicamag.com)
• Ha Jin audio interview re: A Free Life, November 2007
• Exiled to English
• Audio: Ha Jin in conversation on the BBC World Service discussion programmeThe Forum
• "Ha Jin's Cultural Revolution" - New York Times Magazine profile (2000).
• Ha Jin atLibrary of Congress Authorities — with 20 catalog records

• 1956 births
• Living people
• 20th-century American novelists
• 20th-century American poets
• 21st-century American novelists
• 21st-century American poets
• American male novelists
• American male poets
• American male short story writers
• American novelists of Chinese descent
• American short story writers of Chinese descent
• Boston University faculty
• Brandeis University alumni
• Chinese emigrants to the United States
• Chinese male novelists
• Emory University faculty
• Exophonic writers
• Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction winners
• National Book Award winners
• PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners
• Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winners
• Postmodern writers
• Misty poets
• Shandong University alumni
• Heilongjiang University alumni
• Educators from Liaoning
• Poets from Liaoning
• Writers from Liaoning
• Novelists from Massachusetts
• Novelists from Georgia (U.S. state)
• 20th-century American male writers
• 21st-century American male writers
• Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• Signatories of Charter 08

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