Yiyun Li

1972 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

genre: novel, short story

country of citizenship: People's Republic of China

languages spoken, written or signed: American English, English

educated at: Peking University, University of Iowa

occupation: writer, screenwriter, university teacher, journalist

award received: MacArthur Fellows Program, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, Guardian First Book Award, O. Henry Award, Asian American Literary Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

official website: www.yiyunli.com

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, the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for Where Reasons End, and the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for The Book of Goose. She is an editor of the Brooklyn-based literary magazine A Public Space. Source: Wikipedia (en)