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Chinese novelist and screenwriter

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Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (/moʊ jɛn/, Chinese: 莫言), born 17 February 1955, is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine TIME referred to him as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers", and Jim Leach called him the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller. In 2012 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Native Name: 管

Alternative Names: Guan Moye • Yan Mo

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I sometimes think that there is a link between the decline in humanity and the increase in prosperity and comfort. Property and comfort are what people seek, but the costs to character are often terrifying.

Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?