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Mo Yan

Novelist Mo Yan is the 2012 Nobel prize in literature winner.

March 2024

  • Chinese Nobel prize winner Mo Yan in 2017

    China Nobel prize winner tarred as one of ‘three new evils’ amid rise in nationalist fervour

    Mo Yan is widely celebrated in China but now faces a lawsuit accusing him of smearing the Communist party amid an increasingly febrile atmosphere online

November 2023

  • From left: Salman Rushdie, Bob Dylan, Henry Kissinger, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Andrew Wylie, Lou Reed, Sally Rooney, Chinua Achebe and Martin Amis.

    The long read
    Days of The Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business

    The long read: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now coming to an end?

December 2014

  • Mo Yan at China’s national book fair in 2013.

    Frog by Mo Yan review – the Chinese Nobel laureate’s award-winning novel

    China’s brutal one-child policy is the backdrop for Mo Yan’s tale of village life. By Isabel Hilton

May 2013

  • Plea for artistic freedom in China

    Letters: Our plea to China's new leaders is simple. Respect and protect the right of our colleagues and all of China's citizens, to freedom of expression

February 2013

  • Mo Yan

    Mo Yan dismisses 'envious' Nobel critics

    In first major interview since the award, novelist insists his portrayal as a Chinese 'state writer' is unfair

January 2013

  • Critical eye
    Book reviews roundup: Pow!, Sorry! and The Love-Charm of Bombs

  • Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses is burned by Muslims in Bradford, 1989.

    Books blog
    Reader reviews roundup

  • Ulf Andersen Portraits - Mo Yan

    Pow! by Mo Yan – review

  • Butcher in Beijing

    Pow! by Mo Yan – review

  • 2013 arts preview
    2013: the year ahead in books

  • Why Salman Rushdie should stick to holding Obama to account

December 2012

  • Salman Rushdie

    Salman Rushdie defends his right to call Mo Yan a 'patsy'

    'It is not for Pankaj Mishra to tell me not to criticise the literature laureate,' writes Satanic Verses author in letter to Guardian
  • Satanic view that equates democracies and dictatorships

    Letters: Thus Mo Yan was making a moral equivalence between dissident literature and terrorism. That was and is objectionable, and I do not hesitate to condemn it
    • Pankaj Mishra: why Salman Rushdie should pause before condemning Mo Yan on censorship

    • Mo Yan accepts Nobel prize, defends 'necessary' censorship

    • Censorship is a must, says China's Nobel winner

November 2012

  • Chinese author Mo Yan and Herta Muller

    Mo Yan's Nobel nod a 'catastrophe', says fellow laureate Herta Müller

    German writer blasts decision to award this year's Nobel prize for literature to man who 'celebrates censorship'

October 2012

  • The father of Chinese writer Mo Yan

    Mo Yan's Red Sorghum village home may never be the same again

    There is talk of building a Red Sorghum theme park in Ping'an to mark his Nobel triumph – but they may need to start replanting

  • Mo Yan

    My hero
    My hero: Mo Yan

    'The Nobel prize is a well-deserved honour for China's most prolific, popular and widely respected novelist', writes Howard Goldblatt, Mo Yan's English translator
  • Chinese author Mo Yan

    Nobel literature prize-winner expresses hope of Chinese dissident's release

    Mo Yan, seen as being close to Communist party, says he wishes peace prize-winner Liu Xiaobo achieves freedom soon

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