个人简历
莫言,中国当代著名作家,现为北京师范大学教授,国际写作中心主任。2012年他获颁诺贝尔文学奖,成为中国首位诺贝尔文学奖得奖者。1956年他出生于山东省,11岁辍学,1976年参军,服役期间曾担任军中教职,同时开始写作,其文学天赋崭露头角。1997年他离开军界,先后在《检察日报》社以及中国艺术研究院工作。
《红高粱家族》(1987)的面世令莫言成为全国知名的作家。他的主要作品不仅包括小说,如:《天堂蒜薹之歌》(1988)、《酒国》(1993年)、《丰乳肥臀》(1995)、《檀香刑》(2001)、《四十一炮》(2003年)、《生死疲劳》(2006)、《蛙》(2009)、《晚熟的人》(2020)等,还包括话剧,如《霸王别姬》(1997)、《我们的荆轲》(2004)等。除中文外,他的作品被翻译成50多种文字,200多个版本。
莫言多次获奖,其中包括法国艺术与文学骑士勋章、意大利诺尼诺奖、日本福冈亚洲文化奖、美国纽曼华语文学奖、茅盾文学奖、韩国万海文学奖以及阿尔及利亚国家荣誉勋章等。他现为牛津大学摄政公园学院荣誉院士、德国巴伐利亚艺术科学院通讯院士以及美国现代语言协会荣誉会员。
此外,香港公开大学、台湾佛光大学、法国埃克斯-马赛大学、保加利亚索非亚大学、纽约城市大学、香港中文大学、澳门大学,香港浸会大学,秘鲁天主教大学及智利迭戈·波塔莱斯大学等多所大学均先后向他颁授荣誉博士荣衔。
2019年,莫言与王振共同创办“两块砖墨讯”。
Mr. Mo Yan
Mo Yan, a renowned contemporary Chinese writer, is currently the professor of Beijing Normal University and director of the International Writing Centre. He is the first Chinese national to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. Born in 1956 in Shandong Province, Mo Yan left school at the age of 11. In 1976, Mo Yan joined the army and assumed a teaching role. During this period, he started writing and it was then that his literary talent was first discovered. He left the army in 1997 to work in Procuratorate Daily and then in the Chinese National Academy of Arts.
The release of Red Sorghum (1987) launched his career as a nationally recognized novelist. Mo Yan’s major works include not only novels, such as The Garlic Ballads (1988), The Republic of Wine (1993), Big Breasts and Wide Hips (1995), Sandalwood Death (2001), Pow (2003), Life and Death are Wearing Me Out (2005), Frog (2009) and A Late Bloomer (2020), but also plays, such as Farewell My Concubine (1997) and Our Jingke (2004).Hhis works have been translated into more than 50 languages and over 200 editions.
Mo Yan is the recipient of numerous awards including Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (the French Arts and Literature Knight Medal), Italy’s Nonino Prize, the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize of Japan, the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, the Mao Dun Literature Prize, Korea’s Manhae Literary Prize and Algerian National Order of Merit Medal. He is now an Honorary Fellow of Regent’s Park College in University of Oxford, a fellow of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and an Honorary Member of the Modern Language Association of America.
Mo Yan has also been awarded Honorary Doctorates from The Open University of Hong Kong (China), Fo Guang University of Taiwan (China), Aix-Marseille University of France, Sofia University of Bulgaria, The City University of New York, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (China), University of Macau (China), Hong Kong Baptist University (China), Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and Diego Portales University.
In 2019, Mo Yan co-founded “Two Bricks and Ink Insights” with Wang Zhen.