China Miéville

China Miéville is a British writer of speculative fiction and a literary critic, born in 1972. He describes much of his work as weird fiction and is allied with the loosely connected group of writers known as New Weird. His fiction has won many honours, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the British Fantasy Award, the BSFA Award, the Hugo Award, the Locus Award and the World Fantasy Awards, and he holds the record for the most Arthur C. Clarke Award wins, with three. Locus ranked his novel Perdido Street Station sixth among the best fantasy novels of the twentieth century. He was writer-in-residence at Roosevelt University in Chicago in 2012 and 2013 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2015. Outside fiction he is known for his activity in left politics in the United Kingdom.