A famous French commentator is talking about Mo Yan.
Some foreign journalists are taking photos of Mo Yan's books.
Opportunity Unique Chinese characteristics
Literature was awarded to Mo Yan“ who with hallucinatory(幻觉) realism merges folk
tales, history and the contemporary".So Mo
Yan has become the first Chinese writer who got the honour.And his competitor is Haruki Murakami(村上春树) from Japan.
2012 Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Mo Yan
But we all know that none of these excellent writers have received the prize.
On October 11th 2012, The Nobel Prize in
《透明的红萝卜》 《四十一炮》
《酒国》
《红高粱家族》 《丰乳肥臀》
dworking writer and has received lots of prizes in China before.
One of Mo Yan's works , Red Sorghum, got the famous director, Zhang Yimou's attention and he made it into a movie. Finally this movie got the 38th Berlin International Festival's Golden Bear Award.
After the big news, all books of Mo Yan become quite popular among China and many other countries.Several of his works are even out of stock in the bookstores. However, the other interesting fact which is opposite to the popularity is that according to a survey online, many Chinese didn't know this name before his getting the award.
Haruki Murakami and Mo Yan
莫言（1955年2月17日－ ），原名管谟业，生于山 东高密县，中国当代著名作家。香港公开大学荣誉 文学博士。他自1980年代中以一系列乡土作品崛 起，充满着“怀乡”以及“怨乡”的复杂情感，被归类为“寻根文 学”作家。其作品深受魔幻现实主义影响，写的是一出出发生在山 东高密东北乡的“传奇”。莫言在他的小说中构造独特的主观感觉 世界，天马行空般的叙述，陌生化的处理，塑造神秘超验的对象世 界，带有明显的“先锋”色彩。