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Mo Yan As?Chinese names, Guan Moyes?family name?is?Guan, Mo Yans family name is?Mo. Mo Yan莫言 Mo Yan in 2008 Born Guan Moye (管谟业)17 February 1955?(age?58)Gaomi,?Shandong,?China Pen name Mo Yan Occupation Writer, teacher Language Chinese Nationality Chinese Education Master of Literature and Art -?Beijing Normal University?(1991)Graduated -?Peoples Liberation Army?Art School (1986) Period 1981 – present Notable work(s) Red Sorghum Clan,The Republic of Wine,Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out Notable award(s) Nobel Prize in Literature2012 Spouse(s) Du Qinlan (杜勤兰) (1979-present) Children Guan Xiaoxiao (管笑笑) (Born in 1981) Guan Moye?(simplified Chinese:?管谟业;?traditional Chinese:?管謨業;pinyin:?Guǎn Móyè; born 17 February 1955), better known by the pen nameMo Yan?(/mo??j?n/,?Chinese:?莫言;?pinyin:?Mò Yán), is a?Chinese?novelist and short story writer. He has been referred by Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine?TIME?as one of the most famous, oft-banned and widelypirated?of all?Chinese writers,[1]?and by?Jim Leach?as the Chinese answer to?Franz Kafka?or?Joseph Heller.[2]?He is best known to Western readers for his 1987 novel?Red Sorghum Clan, of which the?Red Sorghumand?Sorghum Wine?volumes were later adapted for the film?Red Sorghum. 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.[3][4] Contents ??[hide]? 1?Early life 2?Pen name 3?Works 4?Influences 5?Style 6?Nobel Prize in Literature, 2012 7?Controversies and criticism 8?List of works 8.1?Novels 8.2?Short story and novella collections 8.3?Other works 9?Awards and honours 10?Adaptations 11?See also 12?References 13?Further reading 14?External links Early life[edit] Mo Yan was born in 1955, in?Gaomi?County in?Shandong?province to a family of farmers, in Dalan Township (which he fictionalised in his novels as Northeast Township of Gaomi County). Mo was 11 years old when the?Cultural Revolution?was