Wednesday, December 06, 2006

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers wins Guardian FBA

Yiyun Li's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers wins yet another prize - The Guardian First Book Award this time.

More:
Yiyun Li website

The Guardian First Book Award Special Report including an extract of the winning book and a list of the shortlisted books.

As always, though I haven't got around to reading the book yet, I have been following Yiyun Li in the media through the year. The book is right now on top in the TB (R) pile. I first heard of her at TEV and since Mark's recommendations work very well with me, I've been tagging Li ever since.

Update: A Guardian interview with Yiyun li.

3 comments:

Prabhu said...

He is a master of short stories and has won some awards for them too.

-A straight faced
Prabhu!

Echo/Lavanya said...

Are you talking about yourself? If not, Li is a she, Mr.Ferrari.

Yuva said...

if you like 'A Thousand Years of Good Prayers' then I think you will like 'The Peoples Republic of Desire by Annie Wang'
http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-Republic-Desire-Novel-P-S/dp/0060782773

Cheers,
http://toogood2read.blogspot.com/