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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2026
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From the storyThe children, two by two, walked into the woods solemnly, the hurricane lamp swinging, the light vanishing and then returning.
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Poignant
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Contemplative
Literary Style
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Contemporary Literary
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2.1 / 5
Realistic / Mimetic
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker March 9, 2026 · Mar 9, 2026
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