Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li ( Chinese 李翊 云 , Pinyin Lǐ Yìyún , born November 4, 1972 in Beijing , China ) is a Chinese- American author and editor of the literary magazine A Public Space , which appears in Brooklyn .
Life
Li grew up in Beijing and moved to the United States in 1996 after completing her bachelor's degree from Beijing University . There she studied further with the help of a scholarship from the University of Iowa , where she completed her master's degree (MS) in immunology . Li's short stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker , among others , and two have been the basis for film adaptations, such as The Princess of Nebraska . Li writes in English.
In 2015, Li received the Sunday Times Short Story Award for the short story A Sheltered Woman . The award-winning story tells the story of a nanny who takes care of a child whose mother is suffering from postpartum mood crises. The story was first published in the New Yorker in March 2014. Li was shortlisted for the award in 2011 with her story The Science of Flight .
In 2016, Li lived with husband and two sons in Oakland , California and taught at the University of California at Davis . Li has been an American citizen since August 2012. She is a member of PEN America .
Awards
- 2005: Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
- 2006: Hemingway Foundation PEN 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 .
- 2015 Sunday Times Short Story Award for A Sheltered Woman
Works
- 2005: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Random House, New York 2005, ISBN 0-8129-7333-X .
- A Thousand Years of Pious Prayer: Stories. translated by Annette Grube. Verlag Carl Hanser, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23745-2 .
- 2009: The Vagrants. Random House, New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-4000-6313-0 .
- The mortals. translated from English by Annette Grube. Verlag Carl Hanser, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23421-5 .
- 2010: Gold Boy, Emerald Girl. Random House, New York 2010, ISBN 978-1-4000-6813-5 .
- 2013: Kinder than Solitude . Random House, New York City, USA, ISBN 978-1-4000-6814-2 .
- Better than loneliness , Roman. Translation of Anette Grube. Hanser, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-24906-6 .
- 2014: A Sheltered Woman , short story in: The New Yorker, March 2014.
- Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life . Random House, New York 2017
- Where Reasons End . Random House, 2019
Web links
- Literature by and about Yiyun Li in the catalog of the German National Library
- Yiyun Li in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Homepage of Yiyun Li
- Review of Die Sterblichen by Heinrich Schulz in Kultur-Online.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yiyun Li wins Sunday Times short story prize for A Sheltered Woman in: The Guardian , April 24, 2015, accessed April 25, 2015
- ^ "Excerpted from a Conversation Between Yiyun Li and Mona Simpson" , accessed on March 7, 2020.
- ↑ PEN American: Current Members: L , accessed March 7, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Li, Yiyun |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese-American author and editor of the literary magazine "A Public Space" |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th November 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beijing , China |