Welcome to a book reading with Chinese science fiction author, Xia Jia — in cooperation with Sør-Varanger library.

As one of the most promising voices of Chines science fiction, Xia Jia is a writer as well as a scholar of the science-fiction genre. To date, she has published three novels in Chinese and her short fiction works have won five Galaxy Awards for Chinese Science Fiction and six Nebula Awards for Science Fiction and Fantasy in Chinese. A selection of her short works has been translated into Czech, Italian, Japanese and Polish.