THE LAUREATE: Mo Yan was born in 1955 and grew up during the Cultural Revolution and all the other poorly thought out schemes Chairman Mao tried to use to make China’s economy functional. He began writing fiction in earnest while he was enlisted in the People’s Liberation Army. He writes work largely in demotic Chinese and entirely by hand, claiming that typing in transliterated pinyin limits the words available to him. Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in 2012.
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