莫言，本名管谟业，山东高密人，中国大陆作家，中国共产党黨員，中国作家协会副主席。北京师范大学鲁迅文学院文艺学硕士，香港公開大學榮譽文學博士，华东师范大学 、山东大学兼职教授，青岛科技大学客座教授，汕头大学兼职教授，现为北京师范大学教授。 1985年起，莫言受到魔幻现实主义影响，创作出了一批带有先锋色彩的独特作品，以大胆新奇的写作风格著称。2011年8月，莫言创作的长篇小说《蛙》获得第8届茅盾文学奖。2012年10月11日，莫言因為其“以幻觉现实主义融合了民间故事、历史与当代”而获得诺贝尔文学奖，成为首位获得该奖的中华人民共和国籍作家 English version: Mo Yan

Modern Chinese author, in the western world most known for his novel Red Sorghum (which was turned into a movie by the same title). Often described as the Chinese Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller. Mo Yan (莫言) is a pen name and means don't speak. His real name is Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè). He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 for his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". Among the works highlighted by the Nobel judges were Red Sorghum (1987) and Big Breasts & Wide Hips (2004), as well as The Garlic Ballads. Chinese version: 莫言