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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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© The Nobel Foundation. Photo: U. Montan. Mo Yan. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2012. Born: 25 March 1956, Gaomi, China. Residence at the time of the award: China. Prize motivation: “who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary” Language: Chinese. Prize share: 1/1. Life.
Mo Yan – The Story of My Life. I was born on the 25 of March 1956* into a peasant family in the Ping’an Village Production Brigade of the Heya People’s Commune, Northeast Gaomi Township, Shandong Province, the People’s Republic of China. The youngest of four children, I have two older brothers and a sister. Since my father and his ...
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...
Dec 10, 2012 · BBC Chinese. On 11 October, when the Nobel Committee announced that they had decided to award this year's Nobel Prize for Literature to Mo Yan, the Chinese writer was in hiding in his hometown...
Mo Yan delivered his Nobel Lecture on 7 December 2012, at the Swedish Academy, Stockholm. He was introduced by Kjell Espmark, member of the Nobel Committee for Literature. The lecture was delivered in Chinese.
