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Mo Yan is one of the most popular Chinese authors(作家)today. All of his books are bestsellers(畅销书).And his three books, includingRed Sorghum, have been made into films.
Mo Yan was born in Gaomi, Shandong Province in 1955.There are six people in his family. They are his parents, his two brothers and his sister. As a child, he went to the primary school in his village, and because of some reasons, he left school and worked on the farm. In 1976 he joined the army and worked for the army. Five years later, he started writing and finished his first three novels. Later, he wrote more than thirty famous books. His novel,Red Sorghum(红高粱), came out in 1986,and it was made to be a film by Zhang Yimou. It was his first big success.
Mo Yan won Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012, and he is the first one who won this prize of China.Our Jing Kewas published in Beijing after he won Nobel Prize. He has a daughter, Guan Xiaoxiao. And his daughter is also a writer. Now he lives with his wife and his daughter in Beijing. In his free time, he goes on his writing.
