莫言
Born 1955 · China
Mao Dun 2011 · Winner
蛙 · Wa
Mo Yan · 54 when first published
Novel · 400 pages · Family, Politics, Historical
AI-generated summary:The playwright Tadpole writes letters to a Japanese writer about his aunt, the village doctor of Northeast Gaomi who has delivered thousands of babies, and who becomes the enforcer of China's birth-control policy.
Mao Dun 2008 · Nominee
四十一炮 · Sishiyi pao
Mo Yan · 48 when first published
Novel · 386 pages
AI-generated summary:In a village during the rural reforms of the 1990s, two half-real, half-dreamed stories intertwine, in which human nature collides with greed, morality with money, faith with power and the village with the city.
Mao Dun 2005 · Nominee
檀香刑 · Tanxiang xing
Mo Yan · 46 when first published
Novel · 420 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Around 1900, as Germans build a railway across Shandong, the opera singer Sun Bing leads the villagers against them. He is sentenced to the slow sandalwood death, and the executioner is Zhao Jia, father of his daughter's husband.