Qiu Xiaolong

Anthony Award-winning author Qiu Xiaolong was born in Shanghai and moved to Washington University in St. Louis, US to complete a PhD in comparative literature. After the Tian’anmen tragedy in 1989, he stayed on in St. Louis, where he still lives with his wife. Qiu has sold over two million copies of his Inspector Chen Mysteries worldwide and been published in twenty languages. Many of his novels have been adapted as BBC Radio 4 dramas. Qiu is also the author of a mystery series set in Tang dynasty China, featuring the legendary Judge Dee Renjie. On top of his fiction, he is a prize-winning writer of poetry and poetry critic.