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- ↑ "Past Winners". PEN American Center. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
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- ↑ "The 2018 PEN America Literary Awards Winners". PEN America. February 20, 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
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- ↑ "Yiyun Li receives PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for originality, merit and impact". Princeton University. March 3, 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
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- ↑ "Announcing the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists". PEN America. 2021-02-10. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
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