Yiyun Li | |
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Native name | 李翊雲 |
Born | Beijing, China | November 4, 1972
Occupation | Author, professor |
Language | English |
Education | Peking University (BS) University of Iowa (MS, MFA) |
Notable works | |
Notable awards | MacArthur Fellow Guggenheim Fellowship |
Children | 2 |
Website | |
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Yiyun Li (born November 4, 1972) is a Chinese-born writer and professor in the United States. Her short stories and novels have won several awards, including the PEN/Hemingway Award and Guardian First Book Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,[1][2] the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for Where Reasons End,[3] and the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for The Book of Goose.[4] Her short story collection Wednesday's Child was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.[5] She is an editor of the Brooklyn-based literary magazine A Public Space.[6]