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Mo Yan (Guan Moye (管谟业)) was born on 17 February, 1955 in Gaomi, Shandong, China, is a Chinese novelist, author, and Nobel laureate. Discover Mo Yan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

Popular As Guan Moye (管谟业)
Occupation Writer, teacher
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 17 February 1955
Birthday 17 February
Birthplace Gaomi, Shandong, China
Nationality China

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Who Is Mo Yan's Wife?

His wife is Du Qinlan (杜勤兰) (m. 1979)

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Children Guan Xiaoxiao (管笑笑) (Born in 1981)

Mo Yan Net Worth

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Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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1923

It is a non-chronological novel about the generations of a Shandong family between 1923 and 1976.

1949

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.

His second novel, The Garlic Ballads, is based on a true story of when the farmers of Gaomi Township rioted against a government that would not buy its crops.

The Republic of Wine is a satire around gastronomy and alcohol, which uses cannibalism as a metaphor for Chinese self-destruction, following Lu Xun.

Big Breasts & Wide Hips deals with female bodies, from a grandmother whose breasts are shattered by Japanese bullets, to a festival where one of the child characters, Shangguan Jintong, blesses each woman of his town by stroking her breasts.

The book was controversial in China because some leftist critics objected to Big Breasts' perceived negative portrayal of Communist soldiers.

Extremely prolific, Mo Yan wrote Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out in only 42 days.

He composed the more than 500,000 characters contained in the original manuscript on traditional Chinese paper using only ink and a writing brush.

He prefers writing his novels by hand rather than by typing using a pinyin input method, because the latter method "limits your vocabulary".

Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out is a meta-fiction about the story of a landlord who is reincarnated in the form of various animals during the Chinese land reform movement.

The landlord observes and satirizes Communist society, such as when he (as a donkey) forces two mules to share food with him, because "[in] the age of communism... mine is yours and yours is mine."

Pow!, Mo Yan's first work to be translated into English after receiving the Nobel Prize is about a young storytelling boy named Luo who was famous in his village for eating so much meat.

His village is so carnivorous it is an obsession that leads to corruption.

Pow! cemented his writing style as “hallucinatory realism”.

Another one of his works, Frog, Yan's latest novel published, focuses on the cause and consequences of China's One-Child Policy.

Set in a small rural Chinese town called Gaomi, the narrator Tadpole tells the story of his aunt Gugu, who once was a hero for delivering life into the world as a midwife, and now takes away life as an abortion provider.

1950

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.

It also relates to the subject matter of Mo Yan's writings, which reinterpret Chinese political and sexual history.

In an interview with Professor David Wang, Mo Yan stated that he changed his "official name" to Mo Yan because he could not receive royalties under the pen name.

Mo Yan began his career as a writer in the reform and opening up period, publishing dozens of short stories and novels in Chinese.

1955

Guan Moye (born 5 March 1955 ), better known by the pen name Mo Yan, is a Chinese novelist and short story writer.

Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine TIME referred to him as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers", and Jim Leach called him the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller.

Mo Yan was born in February 1955 into a peasant family in Ping'an Village, Gaomi Township, northeast of Shandong Province, the People's Republic of China.

He is the youngest of four children with two older brothers and an older sister.

His family was of an upper-middle peasant class background.

Mo was 11 years old when the Cultural Revolution was launched, at which time he left school to work as a farmer.

1973

In the autumn of 1973, he began work at the cotton oil processing 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 centred largely on the themes of class struggle and conflict.

1976

At the close of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, Mo enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA), and began writing while he was still a soldier.

During this post-Revolution era when he emerged as a writer, both the lyrical and epic works of Chinese literature, as well as translations of foreign authors such as William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, would make an impact on his works.

1981

His first published short story was "Falling Rain on a Spring Night", published in September 1981.

1984

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.

1986

He is best known to Western readers for his 1986 novel Red Sorghum, the first two parts of which were adapted as the Golden Bear-winning film Red Sorghum (1988).

In 1986, the five parts that formed his first novel, Red Sorghum (1987), were published serially.

1991

In 1991, he graduated from the creation graduate class of Lu Xun School of Literature, and obtained a master's degree in literature from Beijing Normal University.

"Mo Yan" – "don't speak" in Chinese – is his pen name.

2005

He won the 2005 International Nonino Prize in Italy.

2009

In 2009, he was the first recipient of the University of Oklahoma's Newman Prize for Chinese Literature.

2012

In 2012, Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".