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FOR writers, cultural differences are a constant source of inspiration. As the world becomes more like a global village, Chinese writers are eager to communicate with foreign readers through their works. This communication, however, is inhibited by the language barrier as well as huge cultural and societal differences between East and West.
Jun 13, 2019 · Chinese writer and Nobel laureate Mo Yan was awarded Wednesday the Honorary Fellowship by Regent's Park College, University of Oxford, in recognition of his contribution to Chinese and world literature. The college principal Robert Ellis presented the gown and stole to Mo at the ceremony.
Oct 23, 2023 · CHENGDU, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- The winners of the 2023 Hugo Awards, the world's top prizes for science fiction literature, were announced on Saturday night, with Chinese author Hai Ya taking home ...
On a lecture tour in Germany, Zhang asked his audience about their favorite Chinese writers and was given two names – Yu Hua and Mo Yan, the former for his closeness to the experiences of Westerners and the latter for his distinctive coloring of Chinese culture.
Sep 23, 2015 · After a teaching career in Canada, where she was born, Lisa Carducci discovered China as the most favorable place for her writing to blossom. Author of over 40 books and 2,000 articles, she aims to improve, year after year, her knowledge of the diverse features that comprise Chinese culture.
Lu Xun (1881-1936) is widely considered as China’s greatest modern writer. Although he was a prolific essayist and translator, it is for his intense and often disturbing short stories that he is best known. In criticizing repressive social norms, he aimed for nothing less than the eradication of the nation’s spiritual ills.
Chinese writer Mo Yan, whose real name is Guan Moye, won the Nobel Prize in Literature on October 11. The 57-year-old writer, a native of Gaomi in east China's Shandong Province, has used his hometown as the backdrop of many of his novels.
Oct 9, 2020 · STOCKHOLM, Oct. 8 -- American poet Louise Gluck has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced here on Thursday.
Oct 12, 2012 · Chinese writer Mo Yan has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, announced Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Thursday.
Dec 11, 2017 · Author Kazuo Ishiguro has received the Nobel Prize in Literature at a ceremony in Stockholm. Ishiguro is best known for his book "The Remains of the Day," which has also been turned into a popular movie of the same title.
Oct 12, 2012 · Chinese writer Mo Yan wins 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2011, Chinese writer Mo Yan (Left) was awarded the Mao Dun Literary Prize, one of top novel prizes in China. (Photo/Xinhua) Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings ...
The Nobel Prize in literature has always had great influence on China's readers. However, when news came that this year's laureate was Canadian author Alice Munro, the Chinese were caught off guard, as the writer and her works were little known in the country.
Mo Yan, 57, the first native Chinese writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, has landed in the media's spotlight. The Swedish Academy announced on October 11 that Mo had received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work, described as hallucinatory realism merging into folk tales, history and the contemporary.
Oct 23, 2023 · Chinese writer Hai Ya's The Space-Time Painter won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette on Saturday. He became the third Chinese writer to win a Hugo award after Liu Cixin in 2015 and Hao Jingfang in 2016.
Jun 30, 2023 · Before his Nobel award in 2012, Mo was best known for his "Red Sorghum," a novella set in 1939 during China's war against the invading Japanese. In 1987, the story was adapted into a film, which ...
Since becoming a writer in the 1970s, Cao Wenxuan has always expressed in his works his distinct literary perceptions. In 1983 he published the novella A Cow without Horns.
China Plus Published: 2020-10-08 22:50:23. American poet Louise Gluck was crowned the 2020 Nobel Literature Prize laureate, according to the Swedish Academy on Thursday.
The books' authors include Chinese classical poetry master Ye Jiaying, late Chinese economist Li Yining and renowned writer Wang Meng. A book on Chinese landscape paintings in the Song Dynasty ...
Apr 25, 2021 · Users can search, copy and download the valuable books for free on the platform, which covers biographies of Tibetan scholars and the history of Tibet and Buddhism that span from the 12th to the 20th century.
Sep 12, 2012 · The No. 1 best-selling fiction in the first six months of the year is a young adult novel, "Lin Jie, Jue Ji" ("Critical"), by 29-year-old Shanghai-based writer Guo Jingming. It is the third installment of the trilogy that made him famous. He is controversial because of his ruthless, superficial and "empty" characters.
May 15, 2018 · Mai Jia, a bestselling writer of espionage novels. In recent years Mai Jia seems to have retreated from the media limelight. He started a non-profit bookstore in Hangzhou, designed to provide a complimentary space for young writers.
Mar 4, 2019 · The quality of literary and artistic works is improving. Philosophy and social sciences with Chinese features are thriving and generating remarkable results. A nation must have a soul that captures our fine traditions.
