Mo Yan

Other Name: 莫言

Age: 69

Birthday: February 17, 1955

Nationality: Chinese

Gender: Male

Guan Moye, better known by the pen name Mo Yan, is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. He is best known to Western readers for his 1987 novel Red Sorghum Clan, of which the Red Sorghum and Sorghum Wine volumes were later adapted for the film Red Sorghum. In 2012, Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". (source: Wikipedia).

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