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R. F. Kuang

American

Born 1996

Rebecca F. Kuang, writing as R. F. Kuang, is an American novelist and short-story writer. She is known for her fantasy novels, which include The Poppy War trilogy and her novel Babel, or the Necessity of Violence (2022), which placed first on The New York Times Best Seller list and won the 2022 Nebula Award for Best Novel. She is currently the inaugural Millard Distinguished Writer in Residence at the College of the Holy Cross.

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R. F. Kuang books in order

4 books. Dates and covers from Amazon.

2020
The Burning God
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2022
Babel
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2023
Yellowface
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2025
Katabasis
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Babel

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Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution is a standalone novel by R.F. Kuang, published by Harper Voyager. Running to 544 pages, it is set in and around Oxford and draws on themes of translation, language, and colonialism within a dark academia fra

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