Director and professor of creative writing Yiyun Li has received Princeton University’s Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities.
Li is the author of ten books, including The Book of Goose, which was among The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022 and recently won the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and Where Reasons End, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is the recipient of fellowships from the MacArthur and Guggenheim Foundations, as well as the prestigious Windham Campbell Prize and a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among others.
Li, who joined the Princeton faculty in 2017, was nominated for the Behrman Award by academic colleagues across the University. One faculty member who nominated Li for the award noted,
“Those of us who are her colleagues find ourselves asking how she accomplishes so much, both as a writer and as a professor who has taught compelling, demanding and highly rated (by our students) workshops in the time she has been with us.”
Read the full story by Jamie Saxon on the University homepage.
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Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber awards Professor Yiyun Li, director of the Program in Creative Writing, the Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities. Photo by Laura Pedrick
Professor of Dance Judith Hamera, chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts, delivers remarks about Professor Yiyun Li during the awards ceremony at Prospect House. Photo by Laura Pedrick
Professor Judith Hamera and Professor Yiyun Li embrace during a ceremony where Li accepted the Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities. Photo by Laura Pedrick
Professor Yiyun Li accepts the Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities on May 6, 2023. Photo by Laura Pedrick
Professor Yiyun Li accepts the Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities on May 6, 2023. Photo by Laura Pedrick
