莫言英语传记

The storyteller

Mo Yan’s unusual life makes his stories vivid and lifelike. Every time after reading his works, the most impressive thing in readers’mind must be his writing style—like a humorous storyteller who enjoys sharing his stories and experience with everybody in his way. His way seems like having a chat with you. So you do not need to be nervous or worry about whether you can understand his opinions or minds. Through his stories, you can find what he indeed wants to share everywhere. His life also is like an unbelievable legend. When his mature writing mixes with unique stories, a spiritual creation comes out. Who can have confidence in refusing this temptation? That’s why all of his works have caused huge stirs in public after being published. Because of the above elements, in 2012, Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. What’s more, he is the first Chinese writer to own this meaningful and priceless honor.

To better describing this great man, this biography will be divided into three parts: his childhood, study life and before being famous.

Mo Yan was born in 1955, in Gaomi County in Shandong, China. His birth, to his common family, was not happiness but a burden because his family was too poor to support more kids. His grandpa

named him: Guan Moye, meaning being successful in the future. Mo Yan is a boy and the smallest kid in his family, but his parents did not spoil him. On the contrary, he had become a shepherd since six years old. Because his poor class and ugly face, other kids did not want to play with him. He was alone all the time. So playing with animals made his heart full. In his eyes, they were the most sincere friends. With animals’ frie ndships, he did not feel he is lonely. Oppositely, his gap of friendship was crammed by them. It is not hard to find this emotion in his works like Sheep and me; Dog, birds and horses; the language of horse etc.

At that time, his family lived with his shushu (uncle)’s family and grandparents. His shushu worked in the local government so he got a higher salary than others. Due to this reason he did not worry about livelihood problem. Mo’s parents were different. They lived on ploughs. In another word, they were common peasants and always worked in the field the whole day. Because of this hugely different class, his shenshen (uncle’s wife) despised and looked down on his family. When Mo was little, the living conditions in China were poor, all of Chinese were worrying about how they would not to be hungry. Having a hearty meal to everyone was a merely illusion. To be exaggerated, food even could let people sell their souls. However, little Mo was a very good eater. At each lunch