Novelist from Gaomi in Shandong whose stories of village life mix the real and the fantastic, among them 红高粱 (Red Sorghum), filmed by 张艺谋. In 2012 he became the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Mò Yán de zuòpǐn chōngmǎn le duì Zhōngguó nóngcūn de shēnkè miáoxiě.
Mo Yan's works are full of profound depictions of the Chinese countryside.
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His pen name means 'don't speak'. It takes apart the character 謨 (simplified 谟) of his birth name 管谟业 into 莫 'don't' and 言 'speech', and echoes his parents' warnings, in a dangerous political time, not to talk freely.
