Mo Ya, Nobel Prize winner in literature (文学)in 2012, believes his success comes from a large amount of reading.
Mo was born into a farming family in a village in Shandong Province. Mo left school at the age of 12 and started to work in the fields. Mo was tired after his daily hard work, but he was always hungry for books. However, there were very few books in the village, he never gave up. He read his elder brother's textbooks and even dictionaries. He helped others with farm work in exchange for books.
After Mo left his hometown and joined the army in 1976, he began to read widely, including works by Lu Xun and many other famous writers. He studied from these writers but did not copy them. Instead, he developed his own style.
| Mo Yan, the first Chinese Nobel Prize in literature | |
| The process of Mo Yan's growth | He was born in a village and his parents are both . After leaving school at the age of 12, he was always books. In the army, he read works such as Lu Xun's and other famous writers' to developer his own . In 2012, he won the Nobel Prize for literature. His success comes from a large amount of . |
