Yiyun Li at the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival 2010

Yiyun Li has had stories and essays published in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories and elsewhere.

Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2005) won the inaugural Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award, the Guardian First Book Award in 2006, and the California Book Award for first fiction. It was shortlisted for the Kiriyama Prize and the Orange Prize for New Writers, and made into an award-winning film directed by Wayne Wang.

Her debut novel, The Vagrants (2009), is set during a time of the anti-Communist groundswell in late 1970s China.

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