He is Mo Yan.
At seven o’clock tonight, the official Nobel Prize website stated:
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 was awarded to Mo Yan "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".
Mo Yan merges reality and fantasy, history and social perspectives. The world in his creations is reminiscent of a fusion of the works of Faulkner and Márquez, while finding a starting point in traditional Chinese literature and oral literature.
Mo Yan, originally named Guan Moye, was born in 1955 in Gaomi County, Shandong Province. His major literary works include Red Sorghum Clan, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, Sandalwood Death, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, and Frog. Among them, Red Sorghum Clan was adapted into the film Red Sorghum, which won the Golden Bear at the 1988 Berlin International Film Festival; the short story "The White Dog and the Swing" was adapted into the film Nuan, which won the Tokyo Grand Prix at the 16th Tokyo International Film Festival. Mo Yan himself, however, believes that only Big Breasts and Wide Hips could be made into a grand, epic film.
To be honest, I rarely read modern literary works, especially books like novels, so I apologize that I haven’t read some of Mo Yan’s works and therefore cannot express opinions on them. However, even from online reports about his work, one can see that he is a writer with deep "heritage" and a strong national spirit; this style is exactly what I like and aspire to.
As the saying goes, "The first step is always the hardest." Now that Mo Yan has made a start for Chinese people winning the Nobel Prize, who will be the next Chinese winner? Will Chinese people win the Nobel Prize more frequently in the future? More importantly, who will be our country’s first Nobel Prize winner in the natural sciences? These questions remain to be answered by time. However, it is certain that winning an award is never our ultimate goal; it merely represents recognition in one aspect, but it is not the only one, nor is it enough to fully validate a person’s achievements. After all, academic development is endless. Only by calming down and conducting research with a heart of passion can one be recognized by more people.
Please include the address of this article when reposting: https://kexue.fm/archives/1740
For more detailed reposting matters, please refer to: Scientific Space FAQ