Plimpton Prize goes to Yiyun Li

The Paris Review, the literary quarterly founded in 1953, has announced its first winner of the Plimpton Prize, named for longtime editor George Plimpton, who died last fall.

Yiyun Li, cited for the short story “Immortality,” will receive $5,000 for “the best piece of writing by a newcomer to appear in the Paris Review in a given year.”