Mo Yan (Author of Red Sorghum)

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Mo Yan

Born

in Gaomi, Shandong province, China

February 17, 1955

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

Gabriel García Márquez, Leo Tolstoy, William Faulkner ...more

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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 ...more

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Average rating: 3.76 · 37,098 ratings · 4,770 reviews · 293 distinct works ? Similar authors

	Red Sorghum by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 8,375 ratings — published 1987 — 127 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out 4.06 avg rating — 4,973 ratings — published 2006 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frog by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 5,061 ratings — published 2009 — 89 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Big Breasts & Wide Hips by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 3,503 ratings — published 1996 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Change 3.44 avg rating — 3,604 ratings — published 2010 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt (translator), Maria Rita Masci (Translator), Luminita Balan (Translator) 3.73 avg rating — 3,040 ratings — published 1988 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Republic of Wine by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt (Translator) 3.49 avg rating — 2,517 ratings — published 1992 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sandalwood Death by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt (Translation) 4.26 avg rating — 1,160 ratings — published 2001 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt (Translator) 3.58 avg rating — 1,359 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	POW! by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt (Translator) 3.50 avg rating — 596 ratings — published 2003 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Mo Yan (?)

“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

tags: existence

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

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“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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