"There's the jigsaw puzzle table in midtown Manhattan and the telescope she borrowed from the central branch of Brooklyn Public Library so she could have a closer look at the sky at night. And libraries, wherever the location, are an ideal place to get some writing done. "I go often enough that my I have favorite places to sit," she says."
"The library association announced Tuesday that Majumdar has won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for "A Guardian and a Thief," her story of a woman's troubled quest to leave India and join her husband in the United States. Yiyun Li was awarded in nonfiction for the memoir "Things in Nature Merely Grow," in which she confronts the loss of her two sons, both of whom took their lives."
"Li, 53, is the recipient of numerous literary honors, including the PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel "The Book of Goose" and The Guardian First Book Award for the story collection "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers." A native of Beijing who emigrated to attend the University of Iowa in 2000, Li says she never saw the inside of a library until middle school, when she was chosen to be a librarian's assistant, "a monumental experience.""
Megha Majumdar regularly uses libraries for reading and writing, enjoying amenities such as a jigsaw puzzle table and a borrowed telescope from the Brooklyn Public Library. The American Library Association awarded Majumdar the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for A Guardian and a Thief. Yiyun Li received the nonfiction medal for Things in Nature Merely Grow, a memoir confronting the loss of her two sons. Each author will receive $5,000 and will be honored at the ALA gathering in June in Chicago. Committee chair Lillian Dabney praised Majumdar's novel and Li's courageous memorialization of tragic events. Previous Carnegie winners include Percival Everett, Jennifer Egan and Donna Tartt.
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