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...This month Chinese writer and Nobel laureate Mo Yan was attacked by nationalists on Weibo and accused of smearing China in his books....
...For years I’ve wanted to see a “strange stone banquet” (qishi yan), and now one stands before me....
...Writers such as the 2012 Nobel laureate Mo Yan, best known for his 1986 debut Red Sorghum, or Yan Lianke, author of the novel Hard Like Water and the memoir Three Brothers, continue to write — if not always...
...A recent bail application by Claudia Mo, one of 47 defendants in a mass subversion trial, was rejected after prosecutors pointed to interviews she had given to western media....
...“I suspect the government is trying to tire [the protesters] out,” added Claudia Mo. “We have got into a deadlock and this stalemate will last.”...
...Ma, along with fellow countrymen Yan Lianke and Mo Yan (who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in literature), is part of a generation of writers who grew up during the Cultural Revolution and who have spent their...
...“The effects of these shocks have only partially unwound and still pose a drag on UK and global yields and equity prices,” wrote authors Marek Raczko, Mo Wazzi and Wen Yan....
...“Our sales are not really slowing,” said chairman and chief executive Yan Jianguo....
...Chinese Nobel winners never fail to divide opinion, and Mo Yan is no exception....
...As thunder and lightning ripped the skies, tens of thousands of people started chanting in Cantonese “Tin Nou Yan Yun, Tin Nou Yan Yun” – a saying that translates roughly as “Man is being blamed because...
...Additional reporting by Zhang Yan...
...(These early passages, marked by earthy imagery and somewhat cruel humour, have the flavour of Mo Yan’s tales of rural China.)...
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...The 2012 Nobel Prize triggered the opposite reaction from Beijing as Mo Yan, an officially sanctioned writer who has been careful not to violate the party’s political taboos, was awarded the Nobel Prize...
..., by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt, Seagull Books, RRP$27.50/£18, 440 pages The pen name Mo Yan may mean “don’t speak”, but the writer behind the name has more to say than some news headlines suggest...
...Ms Munro is a less controversial choice than the 2012 winner, the Chinese novelist Mo Yan, who was criticised in the west for toeing the Communist party line and failing to speak up for dissident writers...
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...The name Mo Yan is a pseudonym that means “be silent” – Mo Yan’s real name is Guan Moye....
...Another wrote in response: “The first one was moyan [silent], the second was still Mo Yan.”...
...Perhaps the most telling recent prediction came when state media interrupted normal broadcasting to announce that China’s first Nobel Prize for literature had been awarded to Mo Yan, whose latest book portrays...
...China is not short of powerful cultural exports: Just last week, Chinese writer Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature....
...Plus: a tourist in Tibet; the slipping halo of Rwanda’s president; and did Mo Yan fail to speak out?...
...Yan wins Nobel Prize in Literature Mo Yan, the Chinese writer, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 for works of “hallucinatory realism” that merge “folk tales, history and the contemporary”. http...
...Plus: Russia’s schemes for job creation; Mo Yan failed to speak out; and where is the state in Egypt?...
...… Frog, by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99 Blending social realism with the bizarre, China’s most recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature tackles his country...
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