Yiyun Li





Yiyun Li

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January 01, 1972 in Beijing, China

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Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing, China and moved to the United States in 1996. She received an MFA from Iowa Writers' Workshop and an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review,and elsewhere. She has received a Whiting Writers' Award and was awarded a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, TX. Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, Guardian First Book Award, and California Book Award for first fiction. She was recently selected as one of Granta's 21 Best of Young American Novelists. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband and their two sons, and...more


Average rating: 3.76 · 2,094 ratings · 511 reviews · 10 distinct works
The Vagrants
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A Thousand Years of Good Pr...
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Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
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De hjemløse
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Un Beau Jour De Printemps
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Glimmer Train Stories, #54
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“Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.”
Yiyun Li, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

“When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.”
Yiyun Li

“Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan, loving me for whom I am, exactly the opposite of my mother, whose love I have to earn with great effort and with little success.”
Yiyun Li, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

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