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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 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. His books include Explosions and Other Stories, Red Sorghum, and Big Breasts and Wide Hips.
Feb 7, 2022 · Learn about Mo Yan, the Chinese writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012 for his realistic and magical stories. Discover his life, his influences, his most important novels and his adaptations to film.
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.
Mo Yan, the Chinese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012, delivered a moving speech about his mother and his childhood in a poor rural village. He shared his memories of hunger, hardship, and storytelling, and how they shaped his literary vision and voice.
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...
