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Also Known As Mo Yen • Guan Moye
Born March 5, 1955 (age 69) • China
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2012)
Notable Works “A Late Bloomer” • “Big Breasts and Wide Hips” • “E Yu” • “Explosions and Other Stories” • “Frog” • “Honggaoliang” • “Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out” • “Red Sorghum Family” • “Sandalwood Death” • “Shifu, You’ll Do Anything for a Laugh” • “The Garlic Ballad” • “The Republic of Wine”

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Gao Xingjian
Chinese author and critic
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
American author
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
Günter Grass
Günter Grass
German writer
Galsworthy, oil painting by Rudolf Sauter, 1923; in the University of Birmingham Library, England
John Galsworthy
British writer
Bunin
Ivan Bunin
Russian author
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
American novelist
Saul Bellow
American author
Roger Martin du Gard
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Lagerkvist
Pär Lagerkvist
Swedish author
Heyse, c. 1870
Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse
German writer
Zhang Ailing
Chinese writer
Lao She
Chinese author
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
American writer
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz
Egyptian writer
Qian Zhongshu
Chinese scholar and author