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Mo Yan Biography

Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè; born 17 February 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (/moʊ jɛn/, Chinese: 莫言; pinyin: Mò Yán), 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.

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A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.

Bravely, Faces, Mutilation, Order, Should

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

Giving, Spiritual, Suffering, View, Views, Voice

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

Lack, Literature, Problem, Problems, Subtlety

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.

Brutal, Doe, Exist, Important, Literature, Lives

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

Character, Characters, Convey, Novel, Should, Writer

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

Soul, Souls, Thinking, Write, Writers, Writing

People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

Literature, People, Talking

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

Compassion, Know, Real, Real Courage, True

I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.

Authors, China, Great Work, Recognised, Thinking, World

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!

Mean, Person, Prayer, Represent, Writing

I have always been independent.

Independent

For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.

Army, Boys, Constant, Country, Eat, Poor

Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to voice their opinions.

Literature, Shout, Use, Voice

I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.

Become, Stories, Thinking, Urge, Writing, Writings

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

Difficult, Lived, Profound, Thinking, Understanding

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.

Knows, Natural, Way, Ways, Writes, Writing

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.

Aware, Crises, Literature, Minimal, Political, World

My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.

Country, Culture, Life, People, Unique, World

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.

Dying, Gets, Hard, Life, Stronger, Struggle

I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.

Countryside, Grew, Grew Up, Region, Write, Writing