Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li (Chinese李翊 云, Pinyin lǐ Yiyun, * November 4, 1972 in Beijing, China ) is a Chinese-American author and editor of the literary magazine A Public Space, published in Brooklyn.

Li grew up in Beijing and moved in 1996 to the United States after their bachelor's degree at the University of Beijing. There she studied further with the help of a scholarship from the University of Iowa, where he made the Master's degree (MS) in immunology. Lis short stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, among others, two were the basis for the films, as The Princess of Nebraska.

2010 Li lived with her husband and two sons in Oakland, California, and taught at the University of California at Davis.

Awards

  • 2005: Frank O'Connor International Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
  • 2006: PEN Hemingway Foundation Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
  • 2006: Guardian First Book Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
  • Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, Texas
  • 2010 MacArthur Fellow.

Works

  • 2005: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Random House, New York 2005, ISBN 0 - 8129-7333 -X. 2011: one thousand years pious prayer: stories. translated by Annette pit. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23745-2.
  • The mortals. translated from English by Annette pit. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23421-5.
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