她早期的創作均為英文短篇小說,曾在《紐約客》和《巴黎評論》上發表。2005年結集出版的《千年敬祈》(A Thousand Years of Good Prayers),為其早期代表作,收錄十篇故事,大多以改革開放後的中國為背景,寫小人物的悲歡。2012年,李翊雲因精神崩潰,兩度嘗試自殺。康復後,她對寫小說失去興趣,整整一年裡,她專注於閱讀多部傳記、回憶錄、日記和雜誌。據她所言,閱讀關於他人生活的文字「是一種慰藉」。
她在2017年出版的回憶錄《親愛的朋友,我從我的生命寫進你的生命》中分享了自己的抑鬱經歷。期後陸續發表作品的她,榮獲許多獎項,包括筆會/瑪拉末獎(PEN/Malamud Award)、筆會/海明威獎(PEN/Hemingway Award)、筆會/珍.斯坦圖書獎(PEN/Jean Stein Book Award)、麥克阿瑟獎(MacArthur Fellowship)、溫德姆-坎貝爾獎(Windham-Campbell Prize)。作品散見於《紐約客》(The New Yorker)、《公共空間》(A Public Space)、《美國最佳短篇小說》(The Best American Short Stories)、《筆會/歐亨利獎小說集》(The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories),以及其他刊物。
作為當代少數用英語寫作的華裔女作家,她屢獲殊榮,2023年更憑借《鵝之書》榮獲福克納文學獎,奠定她在當代文壇的重要地位。近年代表作除了小說《鵝之書》(The Book of Goose)尚有《我該走了嗎》(Must I Go)、《理由結束的地方》(Where Reasons End);以及回憶錄作品《親愛的朋友,我從我的生命寫進你的生命》(Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life)、《自然萬物只是生長》(Things in Nature Merely Grow)。
在那封信的附言裡,母親寫道法碧安上個月死了──「de la même manière que sæur Joline」──死因跟她姊姊相同。裘琳(Joline)在一九四六年死於分娩,當時她十七歲。法碧安在一九六六年死去,二十七歲。你以為經過二十年後因分娩而死的女人會比較少,你以為一個家庭不可能兩度遭遇同樣的災難,但要是你那麼想,很可能就會被某人罵白痴,以前法碧安也常這樣罵我。
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