PARIS — The Swedish Academy announced on Thursday that it had awarded
the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature to the Chinese author Mo Yan, the
cultural high point of a week of accolades to scientists, writers and
peacemakers.

contemporary.”The name Mo Yan is a pseudonym for Guan Moye. He is the son of farmers
who left school during the Cultural Revolution to work, first in
agriculture and later in a factory, according to his Nobel biography.In 1976 he joined the People’s Liberation Army and began to study
literature and write. His first short story was published in a literary
journal in 1981, the biography on the Nobel Web site said.
“In his writing Mo Yan draws on his youthful experiences and on settings
in the province of his birth,”the biography said, referring to his 1987
novel published in English as Red Sorghum in 1993. His novel The Garlic
Ballads, as it was called on its publication in English in 1995, and
other works “have been judged subversive because of their sharp
criticism of contemporary Chinese society.”
Other works include Big Breasts and Wide Hips (1996), Life and Death are
Wearing Me Out (2006) and Sandalwood Death, to be published in English
in 2013. His most recent published work, called Wa in Chinese (2009)
“illuminates the consequences of China’s imposition of a single-child
policy.”
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