Yang Yi
Chinese-born novelist
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| Intro | Chinese-born novelist | |||
| Places | China | |||
| is | Writer Novelist | |||
| Work field | Literature | |||
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| Birth | 18 June 1964, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China | |||
| Age | 60 years | |||
| Star sign | Gemini | |||
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Yang Yi (simplified Chinese: 杨逸; traditional Chinese: 楊逸; pinyin: Yáng Yì) (born June 18, 1964) is the pen name of Liu Qiao, a Chinese-born novelist who has lived in Japan since 1987.
Yang was born in the Chinese city of Harbin and remains a Chinese citizen. In 2008, she won the 139th Akutagawa Prize for her (Japanese language) novel Tokiga nijimu asa (literally, A Morning When Time Blurs). She is thus far the only Chinese national and, along with Li Kotomi, one of only two non-native Japanese speakers to win the award.
Currently she is a visiting professor at Kanto Gakuin University and a professor at Nihon University.