The Nobel Prize in Literature 2012
Awarded on: 2012-10-11
"who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary"
Mo Yan
Born: 1956-03-25 in Gaomi, China
Gender: male
Field: Chinese author (born 1955)
Biography
Mo Yan, born Guan Moye, is a Chinese writer. He gained attention for his 1984 novella, A Transparent Radish, and rose to international fame for his 1986 novel Red Sorghum, the first two parts of which were adapted into the Golden Bear-winning film Red Sorghum (1988). In 2012, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".