莫言获2012诺贝尔文学奖

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莫言获2012诺贝尔文学奖

A prolific author, Mo has published dozens of short stories, with his first work published in 1981.
The Swedish Academy praised his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".

The 57-year-old is the first Chinese resident to win the prize. Chinese-born Gao Xingjian was honoured in 2000, but is a French citizen.

Mo is the 109th recipient of the prestigious prize, won last year by Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer.

Presented by the Nobel Foundation, the award - only given to living writers - is worth 8 million kronor (£741,000).

Born Guan Moye, the author writes under the pen name Mo Yan, which means "don't speak" in Chinese.

He began writing while a soldier in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and received international fame in 1987 for Red Sorghum: A Novel of China.

Made into a film by Chinese director Zhang Yimou, the novella was a tale of the brutal violence in the eastern China countryside where he grew up during the 1920s and 1930s.

Secretary of the Swedish Academy, Peter Englund, announced the award in Stockholm on Thursday

Favouring to write about China's past rather than contemporary issues, the settings for Mo's works range from the 1911 revolution, Japan's wartime invasion and Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution.

His other acclaimed works include Republic of Wine, Life And Death Are Wearing Me Out and Big Breasts and Wide Hips.

The latter book caused controversy when it was published in 1995 for its sexual content and depicting a class struggle contrary to the Chinese Communist Party line.

The author was forced by the PLA to withdraw it from publication although it was pirated many times.

After it was translated into English a decade later, the book won him a nomination for the Man Asian Literary Prize.

莫言是一位多产的作家，曾发表过许多短篇小说，他的第一部作品于1981年出版。

瑞典皇家科学院称赞他的作品是“魔幻主义与民俗小说，历史与现代的完美融合”。

今年57岁的莫言是第一个获得诺贝尔奖的中国人。中国出生的高行健在2000年曾经获得过诺贝尔奖，但是获奖时，他已经加入法国国籍。

莫负是久负盛名的诺贝尔文学奖第109位获奖者，去年的诺贝尔文学奖获奖者是瑞典诗人托马斯·特兰斯特勒（Tomas Transtroemer）。

诺贝尔奖由诺贝尔基金会主办，只授予职业作家，该奖项价值800万瑞典克朗（741，000英镑）。

莫言原名管谟业，笔名“莫言”，中文是“不说话”的意思。

莫言在人民解放军（PLA）当兵时开始写作，1987年他因一部中国题材的作品《红高粱》而开始受到国际关注。

中国导演张艺谋将莫言的这部作品拍成电影，这是讲述中国东部农村野蛮暴力的一个中篇小说，莫言本人于20世纪20年代和20世纪30年代成长于中国东部农村。