Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 was awarded to Mo Yan, born in 1955 in Gaomi, China.
Mo Yan, is a pen name meaning "don´t speak" which reflects the time in which he grew up. Mo´s real name is Guan Moye.
"At that time in China lives were not normal, so may father and mother told me not to speak outside, he said at a forum at University in California, Berkeley in 2011. " If you speak outside and you say what you think, you will get into trouble. So I listened to them and did not speak".
If you want to see Mo Yan´s best books in pictures:
Red Sorghum was the first Mo Yan ´s novel to be translated into English film adaptation by Zhang Yimou.
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