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Mo Yan
born 1955
Novelist and winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature
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The author of Red Sorghum and Big Breasts and Wide Hips, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012 for work that merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.
Mo Yan, a pen name meaning don't speak, grew up in rural Shandong, the setting of most of his fiction. His novel Red Sorghum became internationally known through Zhang Yimou's 1987 film.
The Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012, describing his writing as hallucinatory realism that merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.
The Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012, describing his writing as hallucinatory realism that merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.
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