Mo Yan
Mo Yan
Author • Editorb. 1955 · From China7
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Mo Yan is the pen name of Guan Moye, a Chinese novelist and short-story writer born in Gaomi, Shandong province. "Mo Yan" means "don't speak" in Chinese. He rose to international attention with his 1986 novel Red Sorghum, later adapted into the Golden Bear-winning film of the same name. In 2012 he w…
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Has Mo Yan won any major literary awards?
Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012, awarded "for his work which with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary." He is the first Chinese citizen living in mainland China to receive the prize.