Mo Yan

Also known as Guan Moye, Yan Mo

Chinese novelist and screenwriter

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Mo Yan is a Chinese novelist and screenwriter known for his literary works. He is significant in contemporary Chinese literature and has gained international recognition for his contributions to the field.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1955
Works: 357

Top works

Jiu guo
红高粱家族
拇指铐
Xue xi Pu Songling
Shifu, you'll do anything for a laugh

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Film & TV

Writing · Gaomi，Weifang，China

Known for

我在岛屿读书 — 自己2022
Voice2012

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: United Kingdom

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 24
Total plays: 562

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China
· 2020 · cited 36,471x
The M06 suite of density functionals for main group thermochemistry, thermochemical kinetics, noncovalent interactions, excited states, and transition elements: two new functionals and systematic testing of four M06-class functionals and 12 other functionals
· 2007 · cited 28,544x
Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China
· 2020 · cited 21,599x
The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project
· 1996 · cited 18,867x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,412x

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Quotes

“Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”
“I sometimes think that there is a link between the decline in humanity and the increase in prosperity and comfort. Property and comfort are what people seek, but the costs to character are often terrifying.”
“Over decades that seem but a moment in time, lines of scarlet figures shuttled among the sorghum stalks to weave a vast human tapestry. They killed, they looted, and they defended their country in a valiant, stirring ballet that makes us unfilial descendants who now occupy the land pale by comparison.”
“A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.”
““Am I drunk?" he asked Crewcut. "You're not drunk, Boss," Crewcut replied. "How could a superior individual like you be drunk? People around here who get drunk are the dregs of society, illiterates, uncouth people. Highbrow folks, those of the 'spring snow,' cannot get drunk. You're a highbrow, therefore you cannot be drunk.””
“Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.”

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Commons category: Mo Yan
date of birth: 1955-02-17
pseudonym: Mo Yan
name in native language: 莫言
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Mo Yan (/moʊ jɛn/, Chinese: 莫言; pinyin: Mò Yán; lit. 'don't speak'), born Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè; born 5 March 1955), is a Chinese writer. He gained attention for his 1984 novella, A Transparent Radish, and rose to international fame for his 1986 novel Red Sorghum, the first two parts of which were adapted into the Golden Bear-winning film Red Sorghum (1988). In 2012, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".