Mo Yan

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Guan Moye (born 17 February 1955), also known as Mo Yan in the pen name, is a Chinese novelist and short story writer.

Mr. Donald Morrison of TIME described him as "one of the most well-known, oft-banned, and heavily pirated of all Chinese writers," and Jim Leach called him the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller in 1987, which was later adapted for the film Red Sorghum.

Mo Mote of Literature was honoured with the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012 for his contribution as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism blends folk tales, history, and the modern."

Early life

Mo Yan was born in February 1955 in a peasant family in Ping'an Village, northeast of Shandong Province, the People's Republic of China. He is the youngest of four children with two older brothers and an older sister. His family belonged to an upper-middle peasant class. When the Cultural Revolution was launched, Mo was 11 years old, at the time he left school to work as a farmer. He began working at the cotton oil refining plant in the fall of 1973. During this period, when Mao Zedong's popularity of politics largely depended on themes of class struggle and conflict.

Mo enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) at the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976 and began writing while he was still a soldier. Both the lyrical and epic works of Chinese literature, as well as translations of international writers, such as William Faulkner and Gabriel Garca Márquez, will have a lasting influence on his works during the post-Revolution period.

He earned a literary award from the PLA Magazine in 1984, and he began attending the People's Liberation Army Arts College, where he first used the pen name Mo Yan. In 1984, he published his first bookla, A Transparent Radish, and 1985, launching his career as a nationally recognised novelist. He graduated from the Lu Xun School of literature's creation graduate class in 1991 and obtained a master's degree in Literature from Beijing Normal University.

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Awards and honours

• 1998: Neustadt International Prize for Literature, candidate
• 2005: Kiriyama Prize, Notable Books, Big Breasts and Wide Hips
• 2005: International Nonino Prize
• 2005: Doctor of Letters, Open University of Hong Kong
• 2006: Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize XVII
• 2007: Man Asian Literary Prize, nominee, Big Breasts and Wide Hips
• 2009: Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, winner, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
• 2010: Honorary Fellow, Modern Language Association
• 2011: Mao Dun Literature Prize, winner, Frog
• 2012: Nobel Prize in Literature