Yiyun Li and Michael Smith receive Behrman Award for the humanities
Princeton professors Yiyun Li and Michael Smith have received the University’s Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities.
Source: princeton.edu
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What we're reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February | Books
Critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments
Source: theguardian.com
Yiyun Li: 'I'm not that nice friendly Chinese lady who writes… Being subversive is important to me' | Fiction
The Chinese American author, whose life has been shaped by tragedy, talks about her strange new novel set in rural France
Source: theguardian.com
Yiyun Li's Latest Reveals The Reader's Writer
Yiyun Li’s latest novel is inspired by a little-known 20th-century French teenage novelist who, it turns out, was more charlatan than prodigy.
Source: publishersweekly.com
Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li : A Public Space
Where Reasons End, which received the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; the essay collection Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life; and the novels The Vagrants and Must I Go. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Windham-Campbell Prize, among other honors. A contributing editor to A Public Space, she teaches at Princeton University. Praise The brilliant novelist Yiyun Li has started a “War and Peace” book club online at A Public Space. You re...
Source: apublicspace.org