Mo Yan was born in February 1955 into a peasant family in Ping'an Village, Gaomi Township, northeast of Shandong Province, the People's Republic of China. He is the youngest of four …

Oct 12, 2012 · Mo Yan, for instance, learned traditional Chinese stories as a young child, as “my grandparents and my father were all great storytellers. But my grandfather’s brother. . .was a …

Mo Yan married Du Qinlan in 1979. They have a daughter Guan Xiaoxiao born in 1981.

Feb 7, 2022 · Mo Yan was born into a family of peasants on February 2, 1955 in Gaomi (高密), a small little Chinese city located in the eastern part of Shandong where the writer set several of …

Mo Yan was born to a farming family in Shandong Province, China. After only a few years of schooling, he began work as a cattle herder at the age of 11. As a young man, Mo Yan …

Mo Yan, on the other hand, was a child of the revolution. Mo Yan writes about the deep-rooted aggression and bravery of peasants against Japanese soldiers; he extols the violent vitality of …

idden in fortune.” I left school as a child, often went hungry, was constantly lonely, and ad no books to read. But for those reasons, like the writer of a previous generation, Shen Congwen, I …

Oct 7, 2001 · "Abandoned Child" is set in the late 1980s and is openly critical of China's one-child policy. Its narrator, a provincial writer, finds a baby girl deserted in a sunflower field and takes …

Nov 3, 2013 · Mo Yan derives the characters and his subject from his childhood days ( except may be Shen Garden). The intense fragrance of the province in the sixties is visible in each of …

It is telling stories that earned him the prize, the Nobel laureate said. In the lecture titled "Storytellers," he talked about how he started story telling as a child and shared with the …