Charles Yu
Charles Yu 游朝凱 | |||||||||
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Yu at AWP 2025 | |||||||||
| Born | Charles Chowkai Yu January 3, 1976 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | ||||||||
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| Education | University of California, Berkeley (BS) Columbia University (JD) | ||||||||
| Genre | novel, literary fiction, science fiction, experimental fiction, non-fiction | ||||||||
| Notable works | How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (2010) Interior Chinatown (2020) | ||||||||
| Notable awards | National Book Award for Fiction (2020) (for Interior Chinatown) Robert Olen Butler Prize Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award | ||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 游朝凱 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 游朝凯 | ||||||||
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Charles Chowkai Yu (Chinese: 游朝凱; born January 3, 1976) is an American writer and lawyer. He is the author of the novels How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown, as well as the short-story collections Third Class Superhero and Sorry Please Thank You. In 2007 he was named a "5 under 35" honoree by the National Book Foundation. In 2020, Interior Chinatown won the National Book Award for fiction. Yu created a television adaptation of Interior Chinatown which premiered in 2024.