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Yiyun Li
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Yiyun Li

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 teaches at University of California, Davis.
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years of life: 4 November 1972 present

Quotes

Nataliahas quoted6 months ago
What one carries from one point to another, geographically or temporally, is one’s self. Even the most inconsistent person is consistently himself.
Anaïs Ornelashas quoted7 months ago
There is this emptiness in me. All the things in the world are not enough to drown out the voice of this emptiness that says: you are nothing
Anaïs Ornelashas quoted7 months ago
t is either a dictator or the closest friend I have ever had

Impressions

Janet Abundisshared an impression20 days ago
👍Worth reading

It talks about her staying quiet about many things in her life then at the end having enough and speaking up for herself

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