A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

Yiyun Li is a Chinese-American novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the most important literary voices of her generation. Born in Beijing, she studied immunology at Peking University before emigrating to the United States, where she received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an MFA in nonfiction from Iowa. Her debut short story collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2005), won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, among others. Read more →