Nobel literature 2012 mo yan biography
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Mo Yan
Chinese novelist, author, and Nobel laureate (born 1955)
In this Chinese name, the family name is Guan.
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Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè; born 5 March 1955[1]), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (, Chinese: 莫言; pinyin: Mò Yán), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine TIME referred to him as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers",[2] and Jim Leach called him the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller.[3] He is best known to Western readers for his 1986 novel Red Sorghum, the first two parts of which were adapted into the Golden Bear-winning film Red Sorghum (1988).[4]
Mo won the 2005 International Nonino Prize in Italy. In 2009, he was the first recipient of the University of Oklahoma's Newman Prize for Chinese Literature.[5] In 2012, Mo w
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Paper Republic – Chinese Literature in Translation
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Our new Nobel laureate! As of October 11, 2012, Mo Yan is the first Chinese author living inside China without French citizenship and accepted by the Chinese government to win the Nobel prize for literature.
Mo Yan, more than any other Chinese author, is well represented in foreign languages around the world. And with good reason – he is one of the great novelistic masters of modern Chinese literature, with a long list of ambitious novels to his name. His writing is powerful, visual, and broad, dipping into history, fantasy and absurdity to tell stories of China and its people – many have seen the influence of Gabriel García Márquez in his writing. Originally counted a part of the "root-seeking" literary movement of the 80s, it quckly became clear that Mo Yan had a style and voice all his own. He is often regarded as the
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2012 Nobel Prize in Literature
Award
| 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature | |
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"who with hallucinatory realism merges människor tales, history and the contemporary." | |
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| Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Presented by | Swedish Academy |
| First award | 1901 |
| Website | Official website |
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the kinesisk writer Mo Yan (born 1955) "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary."[1] He fryst vatten the second Chinese author to win the prize after the exiled Gao Xingjian.[2]
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Mo Yan's writings cover a wide span from short stories, to novels and essays. His earlier works such as Bái gǒu qiūqiān jià ("White Dog and the Swing", 1981–1989) – were written according to the prevailing literary dictates of the ruling regime. Over time, however, his berättande be