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Mo Yan


Born
in Gaomi, Shandong province, China
February 17, 1955

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Modern Chinese author, in the western world most known for his novel Red Sorghum (which was turned into a movie by the same title). Often described as the Chinese Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller.

Mo Yan (莫言) is a pen name and means don't speak. His real name is Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè).

He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 for his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". Among the works highlighted by the Nobel judges were Red Sorghum (1987) and Big Breasts & Wide Hips (2004), as well as The Garlic Ballads.

Chinese version: 莫言
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Average rating: 3.77 · 40,198 ratings · 5,226 reviews · 314 distinct worksSimilar authors
Red Sorghum

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3.81 avg rating — 9,024 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions
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Life and Death Are Wearing ...

4.06 avg rating — 5,315 ratings — published 2006
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Frog

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3.81 avg rating — 5,648 ratings — published 2009 — 91 editions
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Big Breasts & Wide Hips

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3.87 avg rating — 3,778 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions
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3.44 avg rating — 3,803 ratings — published 2010 — 62 editions
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The Garlic Ballads

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3.74 avg rating — 3,208 ratings — published 1988 — 68 editions
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The Republic of Wine

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3.49 avg rating — 2,686 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions
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Sandalwood Death

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4.28 avg rating — 1,381 ratings — published 2001 — 46 editions
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Shifu, You'll Do Anything f...

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3.57 avg rating — 1,407 ratings — published 2001 — 40 editions
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POW!

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3.51 avg rating — 621 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
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“Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”
Mo Yan, Red Sorghum

“People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
Mo Yan

“Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.”
Mo Yan, Big Breasts & Wide Hips

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