Mo Yan
Guan Moye, Yan Mo
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Mo Yan (, Chinese: 莫言; pinyin: Mò Yán; lit. 'don't speak'), born Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè; born 5 March 1955), is a Chinese writer. He gained attention for his 1984 novella, A Transparent Radish, and rose to international fame for his 1986 novel Red Sorghum, the first two parts of which were adapted into the Golden Bear-winning film Red Sorghum (1988). In 2012, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".
Career
- 1955Born
- 2005Won International Nonino Prize
- 2006Won Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize
- 2012Won Nobel Prize in Literature
- 2015Won honorary doctor of the Aix-Marseille University
- Won honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Notable work: Red Sorghum
- Notable work: The Republic of Wine
- Notable work: Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
- Notable work: Big Breasts and Wide Hips
- Notable work: A Wonderful Work of Literature Eulogizing Human Life: On Reading Frog,a Novel by Mo Yan
Trivia
- •Place of birth: Gaomi
- •Citizenship: People's Republic of China
- •Known as: writer, novelist, teacher, screenwriter
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Mo Yan to talk about storytelling, home and inspiration in Nobel prize speech
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