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Oct 11, 2012 · Mo Yan, the Nobel committee wrote, uses his "hallucinatory realism" to merge "folk tales, history and the contemporary." "Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social ...
Guan Moye ( simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè; born 17 February 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan ( / moʊ jɛn /, Chinese: 莫言; pinyin: Mò Yán ), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. He is best known to Western readers for his 1987 novel Red Sorghum Clan. In 2012, Mo was ...
Oct 12, 2012 · Letter from the Director. When it was announced yesterday that Mo Yan is this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, it echoed the case made by WLT executive director Robert Con Davis-Undiano, who delivered the following paper at Beijing Normal University in spring 2012. Mo Yan was also featured in the July 2009 issue of WLT.
Mo Yan (1955–) and the Japanese woman author Fumiko Hayashi (1904–1951) may seem to share little in common besides their callings as writers. Their lives and texts, however, intersect in several ways. Both Mo Yan and Hayashi come from lower socioeconomic strata: Mo Yan from a peasant family and Hayashi from a family of peddlers.
In 1981 Mo Yan began publishing literature, and now has a total of eleven novels to his name, including Red Sorghum, The Republic of Wine, Big Breasts & Wide Hips, Sandalwood Torture, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, and his most recent Frog. Winner of the Mao Dun Prize 2011 for 《蛙》 "Frog". mychinesebooks.
Dec 10, 2012 · Mo Yan’s characters bubble with vitality and take even the most amoral steps and measures to fulfil their lives and burst the cages they have been confined in by fate and politics. Instead of communism’s poster-happy history, Mo Yan describes a past that, with his exaggerations, parodies and derivations from myths and folk tales, is a convincing and scathing revision of fifty years of propaganda.
Watch a video clip of the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Mo Yan, receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2012. MLA style: Mo Yan – Prize presentation.
