China
Mo Yan
said
A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.
— The Republic of Wine (1992)
Mo Yan
Chinese novelist and screenwriter
- Fame67.7
- Momentum0.0
- China rank#56
Source-basedFalling
- Fame67.7
- Momentum0.0
- China rank#56
- Writers rank#245
- Wikipedia25.8K
Born 1955 · age 71China
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Summary
Updated 2026-06-21
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.
Biography
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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.
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Mo Yan
said
Am I drunk?" he asked Crewcut. "You're not drunk, Boss," Crewcut replied. "How could a superior individual like you be drunk?
— Chapter I, Section 1
Mo Yan
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A tidal wave of trucks and carts moved slowly, inexorably toward the now open gate, bumping and clanging into each other as they squeezed through.
— Chapter I, Section 1
Mo Yan
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For a writer, talent is everything. Lots of people make a career out of writing, producing many works and knowing exactly what it takes to become a great writer.
— Chapter Four, Section 3
Mo Yan
said
The relationship between man and liquor embodies virtually all contradictions involved in the process of human existence and development.
— Chapter Four, Section 3
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Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
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