Mo Yan 莫言英文简介如下：

　　Born Guan Moye, the author writes under the pen name Mo Yan, which means "don't speak" in Chinese.

　　He began writing while a soldier in the People's Liberation Army and received international fame in 1987 with Red Sorghum: A Novel of China, which was made into a film.

　　Mo Yan (Chinese: 莫言; pinyin: Mò Yán) (born February 17, 1955) is a Chinese author, described as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers". He is known in the West for two of his novels which were the basis of the film Red Sorghum. He has been referred to as the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller.

　　Mo Yan was born in the Shandong province to a family of farmers. He left school during the Cultural Revolution to work in a factory that produced oil. He joined the People's Liberation Army at age twenty, and began writing while he was still a soldier, in 1981. Three years later, he was given a teaching position at the Department of Literature in the Army's Cultural Academy.

　　Writing style

　　Mo Yan's works are predominantly social commentary, and he is strongly influenced by the political critique of Lu Xun and the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Using dazzling, complex, and often graphically violent images, Mo Yan draws readers into the disturbing yet beautiful, kaleidoscopic universes of his stories. He sets many of his stories near his hometown, Northeast Gaomi Township in Shandong province.

　　Extremely prolific, Mo Yan wrote his latest novel, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out in only 43 days. He composed the more than 500,000 characters contained in the original manuscript on traditional Chinese paper using only ink and a writing brush.

　　【莫言英文介绍】作品

　　Story, Shen Garden and Abandoned Child.

　　Works

　　Red Sorghum (first published in 1987 in Chinese; in 1993 in English)

　　The Garlic Ballads (first published in English in 1995)

　　Explosions and Other Stories, a collection of short stories

　　The Republic of Wine: A Novel (first published in 1992 in Chinese; 2000 in English)

　　Shifu: You'll Do Anything for a Laugh, a collection of short stories (first published in 2002 in English)

　　Big Breasts & Wide Hips (first published in 1996 in Chinese; 2005 in English)

　　Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (published in English in 2008)

　　Other published works include White Dog Swing, Man and Beast, Soaring, Iron Child, The Cure, Love Chinese author Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize for Literature

　　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.

　　The Swedish Academy praised his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".

　　The 57-year-old is the first Chinese resident to win the prize. Chinese-born Gao Xingjian was honoured in 2000, but is a French citizen.

　　Mo is the 109th recipient of the prestigious prize, won last year by Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer.

　　Presented by the Nobel Foundation, the award - only given to living writers - is worth 8 million kronor (£741,000).

　　Awards

　　1998: Neustadt International Prize for Literature, candidate

　　2005: Kiriyama Prize, Notable Books, Big Breasts and Wide Hips

　　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
 

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