MoYangottheNobelPrizeinLiteraturein2012.HeisagreatChinesew1.HisrealnameisGuanMoye.MoYan—meaning“don'tspeak”inChinese—ishispenname.Hewasb2in1955inGaomiCountyinShandongProvincetoafamilyoff

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   Mo Yan got the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. He is a great Chinese w 1 . His real name is Guan Moye. Mo Yan—meaning “don't speak” in Chinese — is his pen name. He was b 2 in 1955 in Gaomi County in Shandong Province to a family of farmers. When he was only 11 he 1 3 school to work as a farmer. At the a 4 of 18 he began working at a cotton factory. During the time his access to literature was largely limited to novels in the socialist realist style under Mao Zedong. At the close of the Cultural Revolution in 1976 Mo Yan j 5 the People's Liberation Army (PLA) ，and began writing while he was still a s 6 .

   In 1984 he r 7 a literary award from the PLA Magazine. Mo Yan is strongly i 8 by the social realism of Lu Xun and the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. His f 9 novel was Falling Rain on a Spring Night published in 1981. His second novel The Garlic Ballads is based on a t 10 story of the farmers of Gaomi Township who were against a government that would not buy their crops. All the Chinese are proud of him.

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1. writer   2. born   3. left   4. age   5. joined   6. soldier

7. received   8. influenced   9. first   10. true