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  • Lea Ypi
    Lea Ypi
    Lea Ypi (born 8 September 1979) is Albanian. She earned her laurea (equivalent to an undergraduate degree) in philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome in 2002, and her laurea in Literature and ...

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  • An Yu
    An Yu is the author of Braised Pork and Ghost Music. She was born and raised in Beijing and left at the age of eighteen to study in New York City. A graduate of the NYU MFA in Creative Writing, she ...

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  • Charles Yu
    Charles Yu is the author of four books, including his latest, Interior Chinatown, which won the National Book Award for Fiction, and shortlisted for Le Prix Médicis étranger. He has received...

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  • Lidia Yuknavitch
    Lidia Yuknavitch
    Lidia Yuknavitch is the National Bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the ...

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  • Jung Yun
    Jung Yun was born in Seoul, South Korea and grew up in Fargo, North Dakota. Her debut novel, Shelter was long-listed for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, a finalist for the Barnes & Noble ...

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    O Beautiful
  • Alia Yunis
    Raised in Chicago, Alia Yunis has worked as a journalist and filmmaker in Los Angeles and the Middle East. Currently a professor of communications at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, Yunis is a PEN ...

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  • Muhammad Yunus
    Muhammad Yunus
    Muhammad Yunus was born in 1940 in Chittagong, a seaport in Bangladesh. The third of fourteen children, five of whom died in infancy, he was educated at Dhaka University and was awarded a Fulbright ...

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