China Miéville is one of the most established writers on this year’s Goldsmiths Prize shortlist. He is an award-winning and bestselling author of fiction and nonfiction. Miéville’s novels fall within the realm of science-fiction, for which he has won numerous prestigious awards. The City & The City (2009) won the international Hugo Award – also held by the likes of Isaac Asimov, JK Rowling and Philip K Dick – while Perdido Street Station (2000) won the the Arthur C Clarke Award.