Novelist Mo Yan is the first Chinese to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. When he was interviewed about the award, Mo said, "I’ll continue the career I’ve taken, feet on the ground, ____26____ d people’s lives and emotions, writing from the ____27____ s (立场) of ordinary people. " The Swedish Academy praised Mo Yah for "mixing folk tales, history and the ____28____(当代的) with hallucinatory realism. "
Mo, whose real name is Guan Moye, was born in a farming family in eastern Shandong Province in 1955. Mo once said his penname, meaning "don’t speak", was intended to ____29____ (提醒) him to hold his tongue in case he got himself into trouble since he began writing ____30____ w serving in the Army.
Mo has published novels, short stories, and essays on various topics. His works have been translated into many languages. His writing is powerful, visual and broad, dipping into history to tell stories of China and its ____31____. All his novels create unique individual realities, quite differ ent from the political stories. He said, "Writers should express criticism and anger at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should tolerate ____32____ who hide in their rooms and use literature to ____33____ v their opinions. "
His breakthrough came with the novel Red Sorghum published in 1987. ____34____ S in a small village, Red Sorghum is a tale about love and peasant struggles. The novel was ____35____ a into a film that won the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1988 and that made Mo popular.