Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012.
Award context#
The award account highlights the relationship between folk narrative, history and contemporary life in his writing. This literary assessment does not make fictional scenes documentary evidence.
Reading the evidence#
Choose a named work and record the edition and translator before comparing passages. Distinguish the narrator, a fictional character and the author. A character’s statement should not be presented as the author’s personal declaration or a verified historical quotation.
Scope#
The reading questions are editorial suggestions. This short award-based introduction does not supply an exhaustive biography, invented interview or current readership estimate.