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Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè; born 5 March 1955 [1]), 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.
In 2012, Chinese writer Mo Yan (Chinese: 莫言, born on 17 Feb 1955) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Committee described Mo Yan as writing with “hallucinatory realism that merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.” Here we compile a list of his 10 most classic works for readers.
Facts. © 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 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.
Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition.
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...
