Yang Yi (author)
Yang Yi is the pen name of Liu Qiao, a Chinese-born novelist who has lived in Japan since 1987.
Yang was born in the Chinese city of Harbin and remains a Chinese citizen. In 2008, she won the 139th Akutagawa Prize for her novel Tokiga nijimu asa. She is thus far the only Chinese national and only non-native Japanese speaker to win the award.
Currently she is a visiting professor at Kanto Gakuin University and a part-time lecturer at Nihon University.
