Chinese-American · b. 1956
Ha Jin won the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for "Waiting," a novel about a Chinese military doctor trapped in an arranged marriage for eighteen years. The Chinese-American author writes in English about his native country with the distance of exile, examining how politics shapes intimate life. "War Trash" won another PEN/Faulkner, cementing his reputation as a major voice in contemporary American fiction.