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Place of Birth: Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
About Yang Yi (author)
- Yang Yi (simplified Chinese: ??; traditional Chinese: ??; 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 only non-native Japanese speaker to win the award. Currently she is a visiting professor at Kanto Gakuin University and a part-time lecturer at Nihon University.
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