• 2004 ，《四十一炮》"Forty-one Cannons." • Mo did win the second Mass Media Award for Chinese Literature for Outstanding Achievements for his novel "Forty-one Cannons." • 2006 ，《生死疲劳》 "Fatigue of Life and Death" • His first chapter book "Fatigue of Life and Death" got him the Fukuoka Asian Culture Award in 2006. According to the list of wealthiest Chinese writers published on December 15, 2006, Mo ranked twentieth, with his royalties amounting to 3.45 million Yuan. These facts and figures attracted wide public attention。In 2008, "Fatigue of Life and Death" won first prize • at the second Dream of the Red Chamber Awards.
莫言
• The 2012 Nobel Prize For Literature
2012年诺贝尔文学奖
Mo Yan
Mo Yan, is a famous contemporary Chinese writer. In 2012, He became the country's first Nobel Literature Prize laureate。 Born Guan Moye, the author writes under the pen name Mo Yan, which means "don't speak" in Chinese。 Mo Yan was granted an honorary PhD of Arts by OUHK (香港公开大学) and was appointed guest professor at the Qingdao University of Technology. Relying on a series of country literary works, Mo's claim to fame came in the 1980s when he established a reputation for being a so-called root-seeking writer.
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My works
In 1981, he started his writing career
• 1981 ,《枯河》"Dry River,"、《秋水》"Autumn Stream" 、《民间音乐》 "Folk Music." 1997 ，《丰乳肥臀》 "Big Breasts and Wide Hips". His full-length novel "Big Breasts and Wide Hips" won the Da Jia Literature Prize, a money prize of 100,000 Yuan.
2001 ，《檀香刑》"Sandalwood Penalty" "Sandalwood Penalty" was awarded with the prize of the "Best Literary Book for Readers," granted by Taiwan United Daily News. This novel also won the Ding Jun Double Year Prize for Literature in 2003.
• Mo Yan works were strongly influenced by magical realism and told the tales of numerous legends which took place in Gaomi, Shandong Province. Mo is renowned for his unique perceptions of reality, imaginative descriptions, de-familiarization processing, mysticism and a pioneering style.
• 2007,《说吧，莫言》"Say It, Mo Yan" • "Say It, Mo ", a representation of his spiritual journey, was published. • 2009《蛙》 "the Frog" • On August 20, 2011, "the Frog" won the eighth Mao Dun Literature Prize • • 2012. 《透明的红萝卜》"A transparent carrot" The Language and Cultural Press under Ministry of Education decided to add one of Mo's novella "A transparent carrot" in high school textbooks a couple of days after the annoucement for Mo's winning as the literary laureate。
• 2000 ，《红高粱家族》 "Family Stories of Red Sorghum" • his novel "Family Stories of Red Sorghum" was on the list of the 100 best Chinese fictional works of the 20th century, as selected by Asia Week. The movie "Red Sorghum," directed by Zhang Yimou, was adapted from this novel and won the 38th Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear Award.