Mo Yan (, born Guan Moye, is a Chinese writer. He gained attention for his 1984 novella, A Transparent Radish, and rose to international fame for his 1986 novel Red Sorghum, the first two parts of which were adapted into the Golden Bear-winning film Red Sorghum. In 2012, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". The Nobel Prize in Literature 2012, announced October 11, 2012. Mo Yan, “who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary”. Mo Yan: born 1956, Gaomi, China. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).