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Mo Yan

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Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.


— Mo Yan


#fortunes #hunger #loneliness #were

My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.


— Mo Yan


#chinese people #country #culture #customs #folk

No person writes to win awards.


— Mo Yan


#person #win #writes

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.


— Mo Yan


#biggest problems #lack #literature #problems #subtlety

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.


— Mo Yan


#circumstances #difficult #difficult circumstances #i #i think

When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.


— Mo Yan


#i #me #someone #something

I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.


— Mo Yan


#continue #describing #emotions #feet #ground

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.


— Mo Yan


#dark #dark side #express #expression #human






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Extremely prolific Mo Yan wrote Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out in only 42 days. " He concluded that "For a writer the best way to speak is by writing. Using ridicule and sarcasm Mo Yan attacks history and its falsifications as well as deprivation and political hypocrisy.

news magazine TIME as "one of the most famous oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers" and by Jim Leach as the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller. He has been referred by Donald Morrison of U.

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