Mo Yan

Guan Moye, who signs as Mo Yan, was born in Gaomi, in Shandong, in 1955, on 5 March according to Britannica. During the Cultural Revolution, he left school to work in the fields, then in a factory. Enlisted in 1976 in the People's Liberation Army, he began there to study literature and to write. He made his native county the setting of this novel, according to The Modern Novel. In 2012 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature, for a body of work which, according to the Swedish Academy, blends folk tales, history and the contemporary in hallucinatory realism.

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• NovelRed Sorghum紅高粱家族Mo Yan · 1987Literature