# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yiyun-li
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:12:16.695Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yiyun-li"
name: "Yiyun Li"
slug: "yiyun-li"
description: "Yiyun Li is a Chinese-born writer. She writes exclusively in English. Her short stories and novels have won several awards, including the PEN/Hemingway Award and Guardian First Book Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for Where Reasons End, and the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for The Book of Goose. Her short story collection Wednesday's Child was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is an editor of the Brooklyn-based literary magazine A Public Space."
tagline: "Chinese American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yiyun_Li.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1972-11-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.81402133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/yiyun-li-8095b625/"
    handle:    "yiyun-li-8095b625"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2349752/"
    handle:    "nm2349752"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.yiyunli.com/"
sources:
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ايون لى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yiyun Li"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yiyun Li"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yiyun Li"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yiyun Li"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiyun_Li"
    title: "Yiyun Li"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiyun_Li"
    title: "Yiyun Li"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "イーユン・リー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yiyun Li"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiyun_Li"
    title: "Yiyun Li"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ли Июнь"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/39820"
    title: "Yiyun Li"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump