Mo Yan

Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè; born 17 February 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (/moʊ jɛn/, Chinese: 莫言; pinyin: Mò Yán), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer.

Mo Yan
Mo Yan in 2008
Native name	莫言
Born	Guan Moye (管谟业) (1955-02-17) 17 February 1955 (age 70) Gaomi, Shandong, China
Pen name	Mo Yan
Occupation	Writer, teacher
Language	Chinese
Nationality	Chinese
Education	Master of Literature and Art – Beijing Normal University (1991) Graduated – People's Liberation Army Arts College (1986)
Period	1981 – present
Notable works	Red Sorghum Clan, The Republic of Wine, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Literature 2012
Spouse	Du Qinlan (杜勤兰) (1979–present)
Children	Guan Xiaoxiao (管笑笑) (Born in 1981)

He is best known to Western readers for his 1987 novel Red Sorghum Clan. 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".^[1]

Related pages

• List of Chinese writers