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Mo Yan

1955 - Today

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Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè; born 5 March 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (, Chinese: 莫言; pinyin: Mò Yán), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. 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". Donald Morrison of 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. He is best known to Western readers for his 1986 novel Red Sorghum, the first two parts of which were adapted into the Golden Bear-winning film Red Sorghum (1988). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mo Yan is the 472nd most popular writer (up from 549th in 2019), the 106th most popular biography from China (up from 139th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Chinese Writer.

Mo Yan is most famous for his novel Red Sorghum, which was the first Chinese novel to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mo Yan ranks 472 out of 7,302. Before him are Mahmoud Darwish, Eugene O'Neill, Alessandro Manzoni, Charles, Duke of Orléans, Erich von Däniken, and Tulsidas. After him are Françoise Sagan, Lactantius, André Maurois, Karl Barth, Ken Follett, and Savitribai Phule.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Mo Yan ranks 21. Before him are Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Ornella Muti, Akira Toriyama, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, and Willem Dafoe. After him are Ludovico Einaudi, Isabelle Adjani, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, Haitham bin Tariq, Donatella Versace, and Whoopi Goldberg.

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In China

Among people born in China, Mo Yan ranks 106 out of 1,610. Before him are Bogd Khan (1869), Dong Zhuo (139), Yu the Great (-2123), Jiajing Emperor (1507), Yang Shangkun (1907), and Emperor Taizu of Song (927). After him are I. M. Pei (1917), An Lushan (702), Zhao Ziyang (1919), Li Xiannian (1909), Emperor Yang of Sui (569), and Milarepa (1052).

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Among WRITERS In China

Among writers born in China, Mo Yan ranks 7. Before him are Li Bai (701), Du Fu (712), Lu Xun (1881), Gao Xingjian (1940), Wu Cheng'en (1500), and Qu Yuan (-343). After him are Luo Guanzhong (1330), Bai Juyi (772), Su Shi (1037), Kumārajīva (343), Faxian (340), and Cao Xueqin (1724).

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