Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes

Yiyun Li is the author of the works of fiction Wednesday's Child, The Book of Goose, Must I Go?, Where Reasons End, Kinder than Solitude, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, The Vagrants, and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, as well as the memoir Dear Friend: From My Life I Write to You in Your Life.

She is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN/Faulkner Award, a PEN/Malamud Award, a PEN/Hemingway Award, a PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham Campbell Prize.

Her memoir, Things in Nature Merely Grow, won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize, and she's here to talk to us about her new novel, Music Against the Night.

Yiyun, welcome to the show.