文档介绍：走近中国作家莫言
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Mo Yan“who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary”.
Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world which is reminiscent of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition.
Chinese writer Mo Yan was named the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature on . If past recent winners are any indication, Mo Yan’s previously published books will now find plenty of new readers.
In the year since Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer won the 2011 Nobel Prize for literature, his 2006 book, The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems, sold about 17,000 copies in the . in all formats. Until the prize was announced, the book had sold about 3,000 copies.
“It’s a really great performance for a book of poetry,” said Jeffrey Yang, an editor at New Directions Publishing Co. who acquired the book.
“The works of Peruvian-born novelist Mario Vargas Llosa also showed ‘a marked bump’ after Mr Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature,” said James Meader, a spokesman for Picador, a paperback house owned by Verlagsgruppe von Holtzbrinck GmbH’s Macmillan publishing arm.
In the month directly following the prize announc