华裔作家李翊云获普利策奖 以回忆录书写丧子之痛
5月4日，2026年普利策奖揭晓，华裔作家李翊云凭回忆录《万物自然生长》（Things in Nature Merely Grow）获得「传记／回忆录」奖。这是她继麦克阿瑟奖、PEN／福克纳奖之后，再获美国文学界顶级荣誉。
据普利策奖评审团的获奖说明，这部作品是对她痛失次子的深切动人、富有启示的记述——那是在长子以同样方式离世的六年多之后。书中，李翊云以克制平静的笔触，书写自己先后失去两个儿子的经历：长子文森特2017年离世，年仅16岁；次子詹姆斯2024年离世，年仅19岁。她写道，自己「必须活在事实中」。该书今年1月已先获得美国图书馆协会卡内基优秀非虚构作品奖，并入围美国国家图书奖。
李翊云1972年出生于北京，1996年赴美留学，在爱荷华大学先后取得免疫学硕士与创意写作硕士学位，现任普林斯顿大学人文教授。她著有《千年的祈祷》《金童玉女》《鹅之书》等作品，是当代英语文学最重要的华人作家之一。（GSM 据普利策奖及公开报道）
Yiyun Li Wins Pulitzer Prize for Her Memoir 'Things in Nature Merely Grow'
On May 4, the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes were announced, and Chinese-American writer Yiyun Li won the prize in Memoir or Autobiography for 'Things in Nature Merely Grow' — adding one of American letters' highest honors to a career that already includes a MacArthur Fellowship and the PEN/Faulkner Award.
The Pulitzer citation calls the book a deeply moving and revelatory account of losing her younger son a little more than six years after her older son died in the same manner. In spare, lucid prose, Li writes about her two sons — Vincent, who died in 2017 at 16, and James, who died in 2024 at 19 — and about her conviction that she must live 'among facts.' The memoir won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction in January and was a National Book Award finalist.
Born in Beijing in 1972, Li came to the United States in 1996 and earned a master's degree in immunology and MFAs at the University of Iowa. She is now a professor in the humanities at Princeton University. Her books include 'A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,' 'The Book of Goose' and 'Wednesday's Child,' and she is regarded as one of the leading Chinese writers in English-language literature today. (GSM, based on the Pulitzer Prizes and public reporting)
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图片来源：图：李翊云2015年在法国出席文学活动。图片来源：Wikimedia Commons（CC BY 3.0，Librairie Mollat 摄）。Photo: Yiyun Li at a literary event in France in 2015. Source: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0), Librairie Mollat.
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