
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
Series
Books

Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh
2001

The Garlic Ballads
1988

Mo Yan's Epic Novel
Herbivorous Family
1991

Femeia cu buchetul de flori și alte povestiri
2016

Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
2006

الحلم والأوباش
1992

L'uomo che allevava i gatti e altri racconti
1988

La Joie
2007

Frog
2009

El manglar
2003

Change
2010

The Radish Thief Boy
1991

Big Breasts and Wide Hips
1996

POW
2003

Trece pasos
1989

Sandalwood Death
2001

El mapa del tesoro escondido
2004

晚熟的人
2020

Un lup atârna în cais, cu capul în jos
povestiri
2019

Bull
1998

The Republic of Wine
1992

Red Sorghum
1987