Mo yan: books in english
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Biography
Jung Chang Biography
Jung Chang is the author of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (1991), which has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide, except in China where it is banned, as are all of her other books. She wrote a ground-breaking trilogy of the history and personalities of modern China: Mao: The Unknown Story (2005, with Jon Halliday), which was described by Time magazine as “an atom bomb of a book”; Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (2013), a New York Times “notable book”; and Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China (2019), which is regarded as “a monumental work” (Spectator, UK).
Her books have been translated into more than 40 languages. She has won many awards, including the UK Writers’ Guild Best Non-Fiction and Book of the Year UK, and has received honorary doctorates from a number of universities in the UK and USA (Buckingham, York, Warwick, Dundee, the Open University, University of West London, and Bowdoin College). She is an Honorary Fellow of
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Can Xue: The Chinese author who returned to writing at 30
BBC News, Singapore
She's a Chinese author that few in China are familiar with - and had been hotly tipped to walk away with this year's Nobel Prize in Literature.
In the end the avant-garde fiction writer didn't win - Norway's Jon Fosse did - but Can Xue's name is now much better known.
Her early life was shaped during one of the most turbulent periods of the 20th Century.
One of eight children, Can Xue was a teenager at the start of the Cultural Revolution, which plunged China into nearly a decade of chaos and bloodshed.
When the Communist purge occurred, her father - an editorial director at a newspaper - was sentenced to the countryside and forced into manual labour. Her mother, who worked for the same publication, was forced to do the same.
When her parents were taken away, she, her siblings and their grandmother were left to fend for themselves. They survived on pumpkin flowers and weeds picked from the mountains. At one point, they resorted t
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Mo Yan
Chinese novelist, author, and Nobel laureate (born 1955)
In this Chinese name, the family name is Guan.
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Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè; born 5 March 1955[1]), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (, Chinese: 莫言; pinyin: Mò Yán), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine TIME referred to him as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers",[2] and Jim Leach called him the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller.[3] He is best known to Western readers for his 1986 novel Red Sorghum, the first two parts of which were adapted into the Golden Bear-winning film Red Sorghum (1988).[4]
Mo won the 2005 International Nonino Prize in Italy. In 2009, he was the first recipient of the University of Oklahoma's Newman Prize for Chinese Literature.[5] In 2012, Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism me
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