Yiyun Li

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born

January 01, 1972 in Beijing, China

website

http://www.yiyunli.com/

genre

Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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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

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Books by Yiyun Li

Average rating: 3.76 · 2,094 ratings · 511 reviews · 10 distinct works

	The Vagrants 3.80 avg rating — 972 ratings — published 2008 — 13 editions	My rating:
	A Thousand Years of Good Prayers 3.84 avg rating — 663 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Gold Boy, Emerald Girl 3.51 avg rating — 409 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions	My rating:
	De hjemløse 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Un Beau Jour De Printemps 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun by Lu Xun, Julia Lovell (Translator), Yiyun Li (Afterword) 3.75 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 1980 — 16 editions	My rating:
	The Dead of Winter (Tin House #34) by Tin House, Joshua Ferris, Yiyun Li 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	PEN America 14: The Good Books by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author), Saul Bellow, Amitava Kumar 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Glimmer Train Stories, #54 by David Hicks, Lucia Nevai, Sandra Hunter 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005	My rating:

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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

tags: korupsi , politik

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“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

tags: change , dead , death , deception , falsehoods , lies , truth

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“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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