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Mo Yan was born in 1955 in Gaomi, Shandong. His real name is Guan Moye. Mo Yan is his pen name. It means no speaking. Mo Yan's parents are farmers.

When he was young, Mo Yan had to leave school and started to work, first as a farmer and then in a factory. In1979, he married Du Qinlan. Two years later, their only daughter Guan Xiaoxiao was born. Xiaoxiao likes literature(文学) very much. She is a famous writer like her father.

In 1981, Mo Yan's first novel(小说) Falling Rain on a Spring Night came out. His works—Red Sorghum Clan, The Re public of Wine , Big Breasts and wide Hips , Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out and Frog are very famous. Mo Yan won many prizes. In 2012, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.