Mo Yan, is a famous contemporary Chinese writer. In 2012, He became the country's first Nobel Literature Prize laureate.

The famous contemporary Chinese writer Mo Yan won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature. This is the first time a Chinese has won this award.

Born Guan Moye, the author writes under the pen name Mo Yan, which means "don't speak" in Chinese.

Mo Yan's original name is Guan Moye, and his pen name is "Mo Yan", which means "don't talk".

Mo Yan was granted an honorary PhD of Arts by OUHK (Open University of Hong Kong) and was appointed guest professor at the Qingdao University of Technology. Relying on a series of country literary works, Mo's claim to fame came in the 1980s when he established a reputation for being a so-called root-seeking writer. His works were strongly influenced by magical realism and told the tales of numerous legends which took place in Gaomi, Shandong Province. Mo is renowned for his unique perceptions of reality, imaginative descriptions, de-familiarization processing, mysticism and a pioneering style.

Mo Yan is an honorary Doctor of Letters from the Open University of Hong Kong and a visiting professor at Qingdao University of Science and Technology (Weibo). He has emerged with a series of rural works since the mid-1980s, and is classified as a writer of "root-seeking literature". Mo Yan's works are deeply influenced by magical realism, and they are about legends that took place in Northeast Township, Gaomi, Shandong. In his novels, Mo Yan constructed a unique world of subjective feelings, made imaginative narratives, and used de-familiarization to create a mysterious world of objects, which are distinctly "avant-garde" in style.

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