Mo Yan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mo Yan
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Feb 17, 1955(1955-02-17)
Age	69
Country	China
Birth City	Gaomi
Horoscope	Aquarius

Mo Yan Biography

Mo Yan is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on February 17, 1955 in Gaomi, China. He is a Nobel Prize-winning Chinese fiction writer. His 1987 novel, Red Sorghum Clan, is his most well- known work. Other works he is well-known for include Life and Death are wearing me out and The Republic of Wine.

Red Sorghum, his popular novel, inspired a 1987 film starring Jiang Wen.

Anna Sun, an assistant professor of Sociology and Asian studies at Kenyon College, criticized Mo’s writing as coarse, predictable, and lacking in aesthetic conviction. “Mo Yan’s language is striking indeed,” she writes, but it is striking because “it is diseased. The disease is caused by the conscious renunciation of China’s cultural past at the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.” Charles Laughlin of the University of Virginia, however, accuses Sun of “piling up aesthetic objections to conceal ideological conflict,” comparing her characterization of Mo to the official China Writers Association’s characterization of Gao Xingjian as a mediocre writer when Gao won the Nobel Prize in 2000.

Mo Yan was born in 1955, in Gaomi County in Shandong to a family of farmers, in Dalan Township (which he fictionalised in his novels as “Northeast Township” of Gaomi County). Mo was 11 years old when the Cultural Revolution was launched, at which time he left school to work as a farmer. At the age of 18, he began work at a cotton factory. During this period, which coincided with a succession of political campaigns from the Great Leap Forward to the Cultural Revolution, his access to literature was largely limited to novels in the socialist realist style under Mao Zedong, which centered largely on the themes of class struggle and conflict.

He was the son of a farmer family from Shandong Province, China. He had a child with Du Qinlan, his wife.

Mo Yan Net Worth

Mo Yan is one of the richest Novelist from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mo Yan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1991, he received a Masters in Literature and Arts from Beijing Normal University.

He was awarded the 2009 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature as well as the 2011 Mao Dun Literature Prize.

Mo Yan’s Red Sorghum Clan is a non-chronological novel about the generations of a Shandong family between 1923 and 1976. The author deals with upheavals in Chinese history such as the Second Sino-Japanese War, the 1949 Communist Revolution, and the Cultural Revolution, but in an unconventional way; for example from the point of view of the invading Japanese soldiers.

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Who is Mo Yan Dating?

According to our records, Mo Yan married to Du Qinlan. As of December 1, 2023, Mo Yan’s is not dating anyone.

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In 1984, he received a literary award from the PLA Magazine, and the same year began attending the People’s Liberation Army Arts College, where he first adopted the pen name of Mo Yan. He published his first novella, A Transparent Radish, in 1984, and released Red Sorghum in 1986, launching his career as a nationally recognized novelist. In 1991, he obtained a master’s degree in Literature from Beijing Normal University.

Facts & Trivia

Mo Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Mo Yan celebrates birthday on February 17 of every year.

The Chinese writer Ma Jian deplored Mo Yan’s lack of solidarity and commitment to other Chinese writers and intellectuals who were punished or detained in violation of their constitutionally protected freedom of expression. Several other Chinese dissidents such as Ye Du and Ai Weiwei also criticized him, as did 2009 Nobel Laureate Herta Müller who called the decision a “catastrophe”. A specific criticism was that Mo hand-copied Mao Zedong’s influential Yan’an Talks on Literature and Art in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the speech, which described the writer’s responsibility to place politics before art. These “Talks”—which were the intellectual handcuffs of Chinese writers throughout the Mao era and were almost universally reviled by writers during the years between Mao’s death in 1976 and the Tiananmen protest in 1989—were now again being held up for adulation. Mo Yan not only agreed but has gone further than others to explain that the “Talks,” in their time, had “historical necessity” and “played a positive role.” He has also attracted criticism for his supposed good relationship with the Chinese Communist Party in general.

Top Facts about Mo Yan

1. Mo Yan is a Chinese novelist and Nobel laureate.
2. His real name is Guan Moye.
3. He was born on February 17, 1955 in Shandong, China.
4. Mo Yan’s most famous work is “Red Sorghum”.
5. He has published over 20 novels and short story collections.
6. Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012.
7. He is known for his use of magical realism and historical themes.
8. Mo Yan’s works have been translated into more than 30 languages.
9. He was criticized by some for not being politically outspoken enough.
10. Mo Yan is a member of the Chinese Writers’ Association and the Communist Party of China.

What is Mo Yan English?

“Mo Yan” – “ don’t speak ” in Chinese – is his pen name. Mo Yan has explained on occasion that the name comes from a warning from his father and mother not to speak his mind while outside, because of China’s revolutionary political situation from the 1950s, when he grew up.

What is the literary work of Mo Yan?

His works include Hong gaoliang jiazu (Red Sorghum), Tiantang suantai zhi ge (The Garlic Ballads) and Shengsi pilao (Life and Death are Wearing Me Out). His narrative style bears the hallmarks of magical realism.

Why is Mo Yan famous?

Mo Yan, Wade-Giles romanization Mo Yen, pseudonym of Guan Moye, (born March 5, 1955, Gaomi, Shandong province, China), Chinese novelist and short-story writer renowned for his imaginative and humanistic fiction , which became popular in the 1980s. Mo was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Who was the first Chinese writer to win the Nobel Prize?

The novelist has been recognized for his genre-bending style and social critique. 2012 #NobelPrize in #Literature was awarded to Mo Yan “who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.”

Who was the first Nobel Prize winner from India?

Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian citizen to be awarded and also first Asian to be awarded in 1913.