The winners of the 2023 Hugo Awards (announce) at the 2023 Chengdu World Science Fiction Convention this October, with Chinese writer Hai Ya's The Space-Time Painter (win) the Hugo Award for Best Novelette. Hai became the (three) Chinese winner of this award, following Liu Cixin and Hao Jingfang.
Drawing (inspire) from the painting masterpiece One Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains, Hai has written a thriller which combines the elements of traditional Chinese culture and historysci-fi and detective genres (体裁) . Hai has created the character of painting prodigy (奇才) Zhao Ximeng, who painted for an emperor about 1, 000 years ago. After much misery and suffering, the painter's mind abandons his physical body and enters a spacea modern police officer is investigating a case involving an ancient painting. The sci-fi narrative, connected (close) to Chinese history, reveals the political power struggle of the period when the ancient painting was created.
Hai, alsofinancial worker, thinks himself more of a sci-fi enthusiasta writer. "I have a very busy job, leaving me little time to write, " he said. "But I believe if I'm willing to put efforts in it, I (see) hopes and the dawn. "
