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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.
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 (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.
Feb 7, 2022 · Mo Yan (莫言), which literally means “nothing to say”, is the pseudonym for Guan Moye (管谟业), an affirmed writer and essayist known worldwide, especially for having won a Nobel prize for literature in 2012 thanks to his ability to merge popular stories, history and modernism with a strong hallucinatory realism.
Biographical. Mo Yan – The Story of My Life. I was born on the 25 of March 1956* into a peasant family in the Ping’an Village Production Brigade of the Heya People’s Commune, Northeast Gaomi Township, Shandong Province, the People’s Republic of China. The youngest of four children, I have two older brothers and a sister.
Modern Chinese author, in the western world most known for his novel Red Sorghum (which was turned into a movie by the same title). Often described as the Chinese Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller. Mo Yan (莫言) is a pen name and means don't speak.
Oct 11, 2012 · Chinese author Mo Yan has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for literature. A prolific author, Mo has published dozens of short stories, with his first work published in 1981.
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.
Mr. Mo Yan is one of the leading figures in contemporary Chinese literature. His works depict the reality of life in China’s cities and farming villages with a unique blend of realism and fantasy, blazing a trail into the future for Asian literature.
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...
