Zen Cho is a
Malaysian fantasy author based in
Birmingham
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, United Kingdom. She is known for her ''Sorcerer to the Crown'' series. She was the joint winner of the
Crawford Award
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in 2015 for her short story collection ''Spirits Abroad''.
Biography
Cho has a law degree from
University of Cambridge
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, and she works as a lawyer.
Cho's
debut novel
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, ''Sorcerer to the Crown'', was published in 2015.
It was a finalist for the
Locus Award for Best First Novel
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in 2016,
and in the same year, Cho won the
British Fantasy Award
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for Best Newcomer. Her novelette "
If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again", published by the B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog, won the 2019
Hugo Award for Best Novelette
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Awards
Source:
Bibliography
''Sorcerer Royal series''
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Standalone novels and long fiction
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Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Malaysian novelists
Malaysian short story writers
Malaysian fantasy writers
Malaysian science fiction writers
1986 births
Living people
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
English-language writers from Malaysia
Malaysian expatriates in the United Kingdom
Writers from London
21st-century novelists
21st-century short story writers
21st-century Malaysian women writers
Hugo Award–winning writers
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