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Yiyun Li
Chinese writer and professor (born 1972)
The native form of this personal name is Li Yiyun. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
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]
Biography
Li was born and raised in Beijing, China.[7][8] Her mother was a teacher and her father worked as a nuclear physicist.[9] In Dear Friend, from My Life I