Lit&Lunch: Novelist and Translator Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li is the author of two acclaimed books, and her fiction has been featured in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and numerous other leading publications. What’s less-known about Li is that she’s also a translator.

At this Lit&Lunch, hear Li talk about her work with Chinese writer Shen Congwen, a frequent Nobel candidate and a writer whose work was banned and burned in Communist China. She talk about why this writer is needed in English and where you can read more of her translations of him.