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Chinese Writer Mo Yan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
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In novels and short stories Mo Yan writes about Chinese life in the villages and rural areas using animal narrators and fairy tales His novel "Red Sorghum," tackles the issues of the Japanese occupation, bandits and the difficult conditions in rural China. This novel was made into a movie by Zhang Yimou. In its citation for the award of the Nobel literature prize for 2012, the Swedish Academy says: "Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition."
China's Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature
10/22/2010
Mo Yan is popular both inside and outside China and the awarding of the prize to Mo was received with wide acclaim in China. Mo Yan is from a farming community in eastern Shandong provice. He writes about the problems and ungliness of human nature and society using fairy tale characters and animal characters, and references to China's past. Mo Yan is the writer's pen name, meaning "don't speak." During the cultural revolution his parents told him not to speak to people outside as it could get him into trouble.
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