Mo Yan
b. 1955 · China · Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature, 2012
Hallucinatory realism of rural Shandong across China's violent century.
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- Cao Xueqin
1715 – 1763 · Literature
The great family saga in Chinese is the form Mo Yan inherits.
- Gabriel García Márquez
1927 – 2014 · Literature
Mo Yan credits One Hundred Years of Solitude for licensing his village mythography.
- Lu Xun
1881 – 1936 · Literature
Lu Xun's village satire is the Chinese vernacular tradition Mo Yan inherits.
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