Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | 2023 | Winner |
About This Book
In a small village in postwar France, two young girls—Fabienne and Agnes—fabricate a book of dark, violent stories that is taken up by a Paris publisher and becomes a literary sensation. Agnes, the named author, is taken away to boarding school and later to England, while Fabienne remains in the village. A spare, haunting novel about girlhood, creativity, possession, and the violence of the literary world. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award.
About the Author
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 →
