Yang Yi () (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 part-time lecturer at
Nihon University
, abbreviated as , is a private university, private research university in Japan. Its predecessor, Nihon Law School (currently the Department of Law), was founded by Yamada Akiyoshi, the Minister of Justice (Japan), Minister of Justice, in 1889. ...
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References
External links
Yang Yiat J'Lit Books from Japan
1964 births
Living people
Ochanomizu University alumni
Akutagawa Prize winners
Japanese-language writers
Chinese emigrants to Japan
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