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Something wrong?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...
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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.
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Wayne WangAlso in A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007)
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Henry OAlso in A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007)
Jhumpa LahiriBoth received Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
Elizabeth GilbertBoth received Plimpton PrizeFame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.