Mo Yan
Mo Yan
Guan Moye, better known by the pen name Mo Yan, 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", and Jim Leach called him the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 February 1955
CountryChina
Mo Yan quotes about
political literature world
I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.
prayer mean writing
When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!
loneliness hunger creation
Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.