Li Juan (author)
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Li Juan was born in 1979 in Kuytun City, Xinjiang.[1] Her parents were originally from Sichuan Province.[2] She began to publish her writing in 1999 and has since published more than ten essay collections.[3] Most of her works detail her personal experiences of the landscape and Kazakh nomads of Xinjiang's Altay region.[1] Li was among the winners of the Seventh Lu Xun Literary Prize (2014–17).[4] In a New York Times article, Eric Abrahamsen wrote that Li's career has taken a "wild path" and that she "may be as far outside of the system as Chinese writers are able to get and still publish".[5]
Her memoir is the basis for To the Wonder.[6]
