Mo Yan

Who is this?

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

1. 1955
   Born
2. 2005
   Won International Nonino Prize
3. 2006
   Won Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize
4. 2012
   Won Nobel Prize in Literature
5. 2015
   Won honorary doctor of the Aix-Marseille University
6. Won honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
7. Notable work: Red Sorghum
8. Notable work: The Republic of Wine
9. Notable work: Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
10. Notable work: Big Breasts and Wide Hips
11. 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