Pen name Liu Qiao Children Two Nationality Chinese Role Novelist | Language Chinese, Japanese Name Yang Yi Occupation Novelist, lecturer Relatives Chen Tien-shi (cousin) | |
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Notable awards Akutagawa Prize, Bungakukai | ||
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 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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