Yiyun Li
Chinese American writer
- Born
- 4 November 1972, Beijing
- Age
- 54
- Birth name
- 李翊雲
Yiyun Li is a Chinese-born writer. She writes exclusively in English. 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, the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for The Book of Goose, and the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Things in Nature Merely Grow. She is an editor of the Brooklyn-based literary magazine A Public Space.
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