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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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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.
- 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 (莫言) is a famous contemporary Chinese writer. In 2012, He became the country's first Nobel Literature Prize laureate. He took the second place in the 2012 Chinese Writers Rich List that was released on Nov. 29, 2012, having earned 21.5 million yuan ($3.45 million) in royalties.
Learn about the best novels and stories by Mo Yan, the Chinese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. Explore his themes of history, folk tales, corruption and social issues in his hallucinatory realism.
Mar 12, 2024 · Mo Yan, a novelist best known for his earthy tales of rural life in China, sparked national pride when he became the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012.
