His surreal narratives and unique style of “hallucinatory realism” reveal a complex interweaving of history, reality and literary imagination. Mo Yan describes himself as a modern-day storyteller who can free his mind and draw inspiration from the traditions of classical Chinese literature as well as Western and Latin American writing. After his literary talent was discovered, he left the army in 1997 to work at the Procuratorial Daily and then at the Chinese National Academy of Arts. He holds an MA degree in Literature from the Lu Xun Literary Institute at Beijing Normal University. Professor Guan Moye is a renowned contemporary Chinese writer known worldwide as Mo Yan, Professor at Beijing Normal University, Director of its International Writing Centre, and the first Chinese national to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.īorn in Shandong Province, Mo Yan joined the army in 1976, where he assumed a teaching role and also started writing.
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