Mo Yan
Chinese novelist and screenwriter
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Born 1955 · age 71China
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Chinese writer who burst onto the global stage with Red Sorghum in 1986 and its Golden Bear-winning film adaptation. Snagged the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012 for blending folk tales, history, and surreal realism into something genuinely strange.
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Mo Yan, born Guan Moye, is a Chinese writer. He gained attention for his 1984 novella, A Transparent Radish, and rose to international fame for his 1986 novel Red Sorghum, the first two parts of which were adapted into the Golden Bear-winning film Red Sorghum (1988). In 2012, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".
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