A prolific writer and a multifaceted personality, MoYan, is one of the most well known but controversial writers of china. A powerful new voice in the Chinese literary circles, MoYan, was extremely conscious of the sociopolitical changes in the china and attempts to portray through his works the plight of china and its people.
MoYan who received the most prestigious and coveted Noble prize for literature for the year 2010. He is considered as the 1st Chinese novelist to win this award. He is the 109threcipient of the award and the first ever resident of mainland china to receive it.
MoYan (1956) was born in Shandong province in china. The author of several novels, dozens of novellas and many short stories. He has been greatly influenced by a wide range of writers like William Faulkner, James Joyce, Oe kemzaburo, Gabrial Garcia Marques, Mishima Yukio, Minakami Isutomu. Of these, he has been greatly influenced particularly by Gabrial, whose impact is very clearly apparent in many of his works. He has a style and voice of his own and his works marked by an impassioned humanism. MoYan is a novelist and short story writer who is renowned for his imaginative and humanistic fiction.
MoYan is the 1st Chinese author living inside china without french citizenship who was accepted by the Chinese government to win the Noble prize for literature. More than any other Chinese author, he is well represented in foreign languages around the world. MoYan adopts various approaches, from myth to realism and satire to love story, but his tales are always marked by an impassioned humanism.He lays great emphasis on human relationship.
MoYan began his career as a writer in the 'Reform' and later published a no of short stories and novels in Chinese. He published his 1st novella"A Transparent Radish"(1984) and wrote the short stories "Touming de hongluobo" and "Baozha". His first novel 'Falling Rain on a Spring Night' was not a great success but his romantic historical story 'Honggaling' (Red Sorghum) won him wide spread fame, especially after its adaptation into a film by the same name.
MoYan next novel 'The Garlic Ballad's (1995), is the most stylistic and imaginative novel. It is centered on the 1987, "Garlic Glut" revolt in the paradise country and portrays the lives of the Chinese farmers in the 1980's from a humanitarian perspective. 'The Republic of Wine'(2000), is a highly experimental work which MoYan believes is a perfect novel. The next novel 'Fengrue Feitun', which was translated into English as 'Big Breast and Wide Hips', in 2004 created a great controversy in the Chinese social scenario, both its sexual content and for its failure to depict class struggle.
His another novel published in 2008 is 'Life and Death are Wearing Me Out',portrays the 2nd half of 20th century. His another novella is 'Change'(2010) is a very significant work in his literary carrier. It is a representative work in his literary carrier. It is a representative work of 'people's history' in which he blend life into history by describing the effects of great social and political events on ordinary human being. His latest novel 'Pow'(2013) is a multi- angled book, in which no character or political system emerges unscathed.
MoYan probes deep into the social and cultural history of china and depicts the social scenario in a very effective manner. The characteristic feature of MoYan's work is his ability to incorporate many autobiographical elements in his commentary on china and its politics and its effects on the society at large.
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