China Miéville, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

China Miéville

English writer

Date of Birth: 06-Sep-1972

Place of Birth: Norwich, England, United Kingdom

Profession: writer, politician, academic, literary critic, novelist, blogger, science fiction writer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

China Tom Miéville ( mee-AY-v?l; born 6 September 1972) is a British urban fantasy fiction author, essayist, comic book writer, socialist political activist and literary critic.
He often describes his work as weird fiction and is allied to the loosely associated movement of writers called New Weird. Miéville has won numerous awards, including the Arthur C.
Clarke Award (thrice), the British Fantasy Award (twice), Locus Awards for Best Fantasy Novel (four times) and Best Science Fiction Novel and Best Novelette and Best Young Adult Book, as well as the Hugo, Kitschies, and World Fantasy Awards. Miéville is active in left-wing politics in the UK, and has previously been a member of the International Socialist Organization (US), and the short-lived International Socialist Network (UK).
He was formerly a member of the Socialist Workers Party, and in 2013 became a founding member of Left Unity.
He stood for Regent's Park and Kensington North for the Socialist Alliance in the 2001 UK General election, gaining 1.2% of votes cast.
He published his PhD thesis on Marxism and international law as a book in 2005.
During 2012–13 he was writer-in-residence at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2015.