Editing Mo Yan (section)

{{Short description|Chinese novelist, author, and Nobel laureate (born 1955)}}
{{Family name hatnote|[[Guan (surname)|Guan]]|lang=Chinese}}{{None}}{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}}
{{Infobox writer <!-- For more information see [[:Template:Infobox Writer/doc]]. -->
| name             = Mo Yan
| image            = MoYan Hamburg 2008.jpg
| image_size       = 
| alt              = 
| caption          = Mo Yan in 2008
| native_name      = 莫言
| pseudonym        = Mo Yan
| birth_name       = Guan Moye (管谟业)
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1955|2|17}}
| birth_place      = [[Gaomi]], Shandong, China
| death_date       = <!-- {{Death date and age|df=yes|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
| death_place      = 
| resting_place    = 
| occupation       = Writer, teacher
| language         = Chinese
| nationality      = Chinese
| ethnicity        = 
| citizenship      = 
| education        = [[Beijing Normal University]] <br/> [[People's Liberation Army Arts College]]
| alma_mater       = 
| period           = [[Contemporary literature|Contemporary]]
| years_active     = 1981–present
| genre            = 
| subject          = 
| movement         = [[Magical realism]]
| notableworks     = ''[[Red Sorghum (novel)|Red Sorghum]]'', <br/> ''[[The Republic of Wine]]'', <br/> ''[[Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out]]''
| spouse           = {{marriage|Du Qinlan (杜勤兰)|1979}}
| partner          = 
| children         = Guan Xiaoxiao (管笑笑) (Born in 1981)
| relatives        = <!-- [[Shi Nai'an]], [[Wu Cheng'en]], [[Cao Xueqin]], [[Lu Xun]], [[Gabriel García Márquez]], [[William Faulkner]], [[Gustave Flaubert]], [[James Joyce]]<ref name="Inge"/> -->
| awards           = {{awards|[[Nobel Prize in Literature]]|2012}}
| signature        = 
| signature_alt    = 
| website          = 
| portaldisp       = 
}}

'''Guan Moye''' ({{zh|t=管謨業|s=管谟业|p=Guǎn Móyè}}; born 5 March 1955<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-03-01 |title=Mo Yan |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mo-Yan |access-date=2024-03-03 |website=Britannica |language=en}}</ref>), better known by the pen name '''Mo Yan''' ({{IPAc-en|m|oʊ|_|j|ɛ|n}}, {{zh|c=莫言|p=Mò Yán}}), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer.  In 2012, Mo was awarded the [[2012 Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize in Literature]] for his work as a writer "who with [[hallucinatory realism]] merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".<ref name="Mo Yan får Nobelpriset i litteratur 2012" /><ref name="Nobel" /> Donald Morrison of ''[[Time (magazine)|TIME]]'' referred to him as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely [[Copyright infringement|pirated]] of all [[List of Chinese writers|Chinese writers]]",<ref name="Holding Up Half The Sky"/> and [[Jim Leach]] called him the Chinese answer to [[Franz Kafka]] or [[Joseph Heller]].<ref name="Leach"/> He is best known to Western readers for his 1986 novel ''[[Red Sorghum Clan|Red Sorghum]]'', the first two parts of which were adapted into the [[Golden Bear]]-winning film ''[[Red Sorghum (film)|Red Sorghum]]'' (1988).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Inge |first=M. Thomas |date=1990 |title=Mo Yan and William Faulkner: Influences and Confluences |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24907667 |journal=Faulkner Journal |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=15–24 |jstor=24907667 |issn=0884-2949}}</ref>

Mo won the 2005 [[Nonino#Winners|International Nonino Prize]] in Italy. In 2009, he was the first recipient of the University of Oklahoma's [[Newman Prize for Chinese Literature]].<ref name="auto">{{Cite journal|last1=Ding|first1=Rongrong|last2=Wang|first2=Lixun|date=2017-05-04|title=Mo Yan's style in using colour expressions and Goldblatt's translation strategies: a corpus-based study|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/23306343.2017.1331389|journal=Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies|volume=4|issue=2|pages=117–131|doi=10.1080/23306343.2017.1331389|issn=2330-6343|url-access=subscription}}</ref>