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Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè; born 5 March 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (/ m oʊ j ɛ n /, Chinese: 莫言; pinyin: Mò Yán), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer.
Mo Yan (born March 5, 1955, Gaomi, Shandong province, China) is a Chinese novelist and short-story writer renowned for his imaginative and humanistic fiction, which became popular in the 1980s. Mo was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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- Hong Gaoliang jiazu 红高粱家族 “Red Sorghum” Red Sorghum, literally “The Red Sorghum Clan”, is one of the novels that’s most distinctive of Mo Yan, originally published in five parts between 1985 and 1986, to then be published in a single text in 1988.
- Tangxiang Xing 檀香刑 “Sandalwood Death” Sandalwood Death is my favorite of Mo Yan’s writings. A novel published in 2001, many consider it to be a typical story: it’s set in China of the 1900’s at the time of the Boxer Rebellion.
- Shengsi pilao 生死疲劳 “Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out” Shengsi pilao, literally “The Trouble of Living and Dying”, translated into various languages as “The Six Reincarnations of Ximen Nao”, is a novel that was published in 2006.
- Wa 蛙 “Frog” Frog is a novel published in 2009; the title is a phonetic play on words between two Chinese words that are distinguished only by a different tone: wa 蛙 “frog” and wa 娃 “children”.
Mo Yan is a Chinese author who blends folk tales, history and the contemporary in his hallucinatory realism. He was born in 1956, worked as a cattle herder and a soldier, and wrote novels such as Red Sorghum and Life and Death are Wearing Me Out.
Mo Yan is a Chinese writer who was born in a peasant family and dropped out of school during the Cultural Revolution. He became a self-taught author who drew on his rural upbringing and his fascination with martial arts, medicine, and folklore to create his fictional world.
Oct 11, 2012 · Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday. The Swedish Academy, which selects the winners of the award, praised Mo's "hallucinatory realism," saying it "merges folk...
Modern Chinese author, in the western world most known for his novel Red Sorghum (which was turned into a movie by the same title). Often described as the Chinese Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller. Mo Yan (莫言) is a pen name and means don't speak.
