Nobel Literature winner 10th OCtober 2012

Chinese writer Mo Yan wining the Nobel prize for literature
October 2012 Last updated at 12:49 GMT

Chinese author Mo ( Yan Guan Moye) wins Nobel Prize for Literature

 

Chinese author Mo Yan has won the 2012 Nobel Prize for literature.

His first work was published in 1981.
The Swedish Academy praised his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".

Mo is the 109th recipient of the prestigious prize, presented by the Nobel Foundation, the award - only given to living writers - is worth 8 million kronor (£741,000).

Born Guan Moye, the author writes under the pen name Mo Yan, which means "don't speak" in Chinese.
He began writing while serving in the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
His Chinese novel, Red Sorghum received international fame in 1987
China's filmmaker Zhang Yimou made it into a film on this story of the brutal violence in the eastern China countryside where he grew up during the 1920s and 1930s. It won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1988.

Mo enjoyed writing about China's past rather than contemporary issues, his novels range from the 1911 revolution, Japan's wartime invasion and Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution.

Mo had  4 other acclaimed works  and one of them,  Wide Hips was translated into English later, the book won him a nomination for the Man Asian Literary Prize.

His latest novel, Frog, about China's "one child" population control policy, won the Mao Dun Literature Prize - one of his country's most prestigious literature prizes - last year.
Mo and the other Nobel laureates for medicine, physics, chemistry and peace, will receive their prizes at formal ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo on 10 December - the anniversary of the death of prize creator Alfred Nobel in 1896.
Mo Yan's Red Sorghum (simplified Chinese: 红高粱; traditional Chinese: 紅高粱; pinyin: Hóng Gāoliáng) is a 1987 Chinese film about a young woman's life working on a distillery for sorghum liquor.
The film marked the directorial debut of internationally acclaimed filmmaker Zhang Yimou, and the acting debut of film star Gong Li. With its lush and lusty portrayal of peasant life, it immediately vaulted Zhang to the forefront of the Fifth Generation directors.

Remember seeing this show and the country side scenery was fantastic.

certainly hope that this award will give rise to more recognition of Chinese literature, and to remember one of China's once great poet, Li Pai