Red Sorghum ClanGuan Moye, better known by the pen name Mo Yan, is a Chinese writer and novelist.In 2012, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Mo Yan "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".Mo Yan's Red Sorghum Clan is a non-chronological novel about the generations of a shandong family between 1923 and 1976.The author deals with upheavals in Chinese history,but in an unconventional way,for example from the point of view of the invading Japanese soldiers.A major theme in Mo Yan's works is the constancy of human greed and corruption.Aged 57 at the time of the announcement,he was the 109th recipient of the award and the first ever resident of mainland China to receive it.
