both these book are in our library.
both these books are must reads.
Born to write
- From: The Australian
- May 08, 2010
Chinese writer Yiyun Li has that rare ability to create luminous prose in a second language
see full article:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/born-to-write/story-e6frg8n6-1225862110562WHEN Yiyun Li sat down at her computer and started to write stories, something remarkable happened.
She was born into a family of scientists in Beijing, and writing at all was aberrant. Yet she found herself writing, and not in Chinese but in English, a language she had only begun to learn, in a very formal manner, at school.
This was not merely utilitarian English. It was luminous, pared prose that almost immediately received praise from some of the world's toughest literary critics who compared her with Nobel prize winners J. M. Coetzee and Orhan Pamuk, among other writers. She has become part of that tiny elite whose stories and essays are published by The New Yorker.
Yiyun Li is at the Sydney Writers Festival this week May 16-23 2010. Check out their website for details.
http://www.swf.org.au/also check out YiYun Li's website--
www.yiyunli.com
YiYun Li's favorite author: William Trevor. A number of his books in our library.
The are a number of interviews on You Tube: YiYun Liu has been in great demand :---
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=YiYun+Li+The+Vagrants&aq=f
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