# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mo-yan
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:50:46.045Z

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name: "Mo Yan"
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description: "He writes novels where folk myth bleeds into recent history until you can't tell which is memory and which is fever dream — a style the Nobel committee called \"hallucinatory realism\" when they gave him the literature prize in 2012."
tagline: "Chinese novelist and screenwriter"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Guan Moye on 5 March 1955, he adopted the pen name Mo Yan — "don't speak" — and broke through in 1984 with the novella A Transparent Radish. Two years later came Red Sorghum, the novel that made him internationally visible; its first sections became the 1988 film that won the Golden Bear. His fiction folds Chinese folklore and twentieth-century turmoil into each other until the seams disappear. In 2012 the Nobel Prize in Literature recognised that fusion, citing work that merges folk tales, history, and the contemporary through hallucinatory realism.