CHINESE AUTHOR, MO YAN WINS 2012 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Friday, October 12, 2012Omoba
Chinese writer Mo Yan (originally Guan
Moye)., best known in the West for his book "Red Sorghum," has been
awarded the Nobel prize in literature. The award was given as a result of the writer’s
prolific skills in merging fantasy with reality and infusing history, folk
tales and the contemporary.
The writer who came
from a humble home (his parents were farmers) and whose cultural experiences
span Agriculture, Literature and the army has other previous works: his novel Hong
gaoliang jiazu (1987) in English, meaning Red Sorghum (1993),
was successfully filmed in 1987 and directed by famous Chinese director Zhang
Yimou.
Mo Yan (meaning,
‘Don’t speak’) has published other short stories and essays asides his novels
and is considered a pioneering contemporary author – one out of many from his
homeland.
The Nobel Prize in
Literature is given to the author with ‘the most outstanding work in an ideal
direction’. It is one of the five categories of the Nobel Prizes. The
other groupings include the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in
Physics, Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine, all established according will of Swedish dynamite inventor Alfred
Nobel in 1895.
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