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The Chinese writer Liu Cixin has won the 2015 Hugo Award for best science-fiction novel. This is the first time the prestigious prize has been awarded to a Chinese writer. But the person who helped turn Mr. Cixin's novel "The Three-Body Problem" into an international sensation is translator Ken Liu. He too is an author, and spoke to Newsday about his work and Liu Cixin's success. (Photo: An illustration of a gamma ray burst Credit: NASA/D.Berry)