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Yiyun Li
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born
January 01, 1972
place of birth
Beijing, China
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genre
Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction, Short Stories
about this author
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, a...more
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories by Yiyun Li avg rating 3.92 — 251 ratings — published 2006 4 editions |
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The Vagrants: A Novel by Yiyun Li avg rating 3.94 — 216 ratings — published 2008 4 editions |
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating |
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Die Sterblichen by Yiyun Li, Anette Grube avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2009 |
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Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2007 |
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Los Buenos Deseos/ the Good Desires by Yiyun Li avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2007 |
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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: Stories)
— Yiyun Li (A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories)
"The boy will remain a son and never become a father. He will be forgotten by the crowd once his blood is rinsed clean from the ground; his sister will think of him but soon she will forget him, too. He will live on only in Han's memory, a child punished not for his own insincerity but someone else's disbelief."
— Yiyun Li (A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories)
— Yiyun Li (A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories)
