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Mo Yan is a Chinese writer, novelist, teacher, and screenwriter born in Gaomi in 1955. His native name is 莫言, and he writes in Mandarin. He is a member of the Chinese Communist Party and was educated at Beijing Normal University and the College of Military Culture at the PLA National Defense University. His notable works include *Red Sorghum*, *The Republic of Wine*, *Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out*, and *Big Breasts and Wide Hips*.
He received the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize. His writing was influenced by William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez. Mo Yan is recognized in the Nobel Literature collection. He has stated that a writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1955
- Works
- 357
Top works
- Jiu guo
- 红高粱家族
- 拇指铐
- Xue xi Pu Songling
- Shifu, you'll do anything for a laugh
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Film & TV
Writing · Gaomi,Weifang,China
Known for
- 我在岛屿读书 — 自己2022
- Voice2012
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 24
- Total plays
- 562
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mo+Yan">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China
· 2020 · cited 36,636x
- The M06 suite of density functionals for main group thermochemistry, thermochemical kinetics, noncovalent interactions, excited states, and transition elements: two new functionals and systematic testing of four M06-class functionals and 12 other functionals
· 2007 · cited 28,974x
- Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China
· 2020 · cited 21,676x
- The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project
· 1996 · cited 18,867x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,794x
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Quotes
- “Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”
- “I sometimes think that there is a link between the decline in humanity and the increase in prosperity and comfort. Property and comfort are what people seek, but the costs to character are often terrifying.”
- “Over decades that seem but a moment in time, lines of scarlet figures shuttled among the sorghum stalks to weave a vast human tapestry. They killed, they looted, and they defended their country in a valiant, stirring ballet that makes us unfilial descendants who now occupy the land pale by comparison.”
- “A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.”
- ““Am I drunk?" he asked Crewcut. "You're not drunk, Boss," Crewcut replied. "How could a superior individual like you be drunk? People around here who get drunk are the dregs of society, illiterates, uncouth people. Highbrow folks, those of the 'spring snow,' cannot get drunk. You're a highbrow, therefore you cannot be drunk.””
- “Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.”
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Literature2012
“who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary”
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