Mo Yan
17 February 1955 – present
Mo Yan is the pen name of Guan Moye, a Chinese novelist and short-story writer from Gaomi County, Shandong. His fiction, including Red Sorghum, Big Breasts and Wide Hips and Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, blends rural Chinese settings with folk tale and historical narrative. He received the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2011 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012.
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Life events
Born Guan Moye into a farming family in northeastern Gaomi Township.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgEnlisted in the army, where he later began writing and worked as a library clerk and instructor.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis debut story appeared in a literary journal, beginning his publishing career.
Completed studies in the academy's literature department.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe novella that brought him national attention and was later collected in the Red Sorghum Clan.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe screen adaptation of his novella took the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCompleted a graduate programme run jointly with the Lu Xun Literature Institute.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgA family saga spanning twentieth-century Chinese history that drew official criticism in China.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgChina's principal novel prize, given for his 2009 novel about the one-child policy.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe Swedish Academy cited his hallucinatory realism merging folk tales, history and the contemporary.
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