{"id":3104,"date":"2012-10-11T08:44:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T13:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3104"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:47","slug":"chinese-novelist-mo-yan-wins-the-nobel-prize-for-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/11\/chinese-novelist-mo-yan-wins-the-nobel-prize-for-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Novelist Mo Yan Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has its first literary Nobel Laureate as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/literature\/laureates\/2012\/press.html\">the prize has gone to<\/a> 57-year-old novelist <strong>Mo Yan<\/strong>. Yan is said to make use of magical realism and satire in addressing China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent history. His books have been frequently banned in China and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mo Yan\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a pen name meaning \u00e2\u20ac\u0153don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t speak.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Yan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s given name is Guan Moye.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1559708530\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1559708530.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"cover\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Author <strong>Alex Shakar<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2011\/12\/a-year-in-reading-alex-shakar.html\">wrote about<\/a> Yan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s novel <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1559708530\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\">Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Yan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s style here is maximalistic, headlong, sloppy to be sure, but bursting with life; or rather, <\/em><em>lives<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d human and otherwise. A Chinese landowner is executed at the dawn of the Cultural Revolution, and the story follows him literally to hell and back, again and again as he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reborn in a progression of animal incarnations. Each time, he winds up near his former family and participates in its dramas, goes on animal adventures, and witnesses the hardships, cruelties, and absurdities of life in China over the last half-century. Mo Yan himself shows up as a character from time to time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/10\/chinese-novelist-mo-yan-wins-the-nobel-prize-for-literature.html\">The Millions : Chinese Novelist Mo Yan Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China gets its first literary Laureate as Mo Yan (Guan Moye) takes home the Nobel Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[554,714,59,713,191],"class_list":["post-3104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-554","tag-guan-moye","tag-literature","tag-mo-yan","tag-nobel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3104"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10007,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions\/10007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}