WRITER

Mo Yan

1955 - Today

Photo of Mo Yan

Icon of person Mo Yan

Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè; born 5 March 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (, Chinese: 莫言; pinyin: Mò Yán), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine TIME referred to him as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers", and Jim Leach called him the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mo Yan has received more than 869,020 page views. His biography is available in 95 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 92 in 2019). Mo Yan is the 550th most popular writer (up from 565th in 2019), the 139th most popular biography from China (up from 148th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Chinese Writer.

Mo Yan is most famous for his novel Red Sorghum, which was the first Chinese novel to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Memorability Metrics

  • 870k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 95

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mo Yan ranks 550 out of 7,302. Before him are Eugenio Montale, Frantz Fanon, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Gustav Meyrink, Georg Trakl, and Patrick Süskind. After him are Robert Burns, Klaus Mann, Paul Lafargue, Arthur Koestler, W. Somerset Maugham, and Francisco de Quevedo.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Mo Yan ranks 22. Before him are Isabelle Adjani, Guillermo Lasso, Sergey Shoygu, Li Keqiang, Akira Toriyama, and Angus Young. After him are Ludovico Einaudi, Héctor Cúper, Olga Korbut, Valery Gerasimov, Whoopi Goldberg, and Katalin Karikó.

Others Born in 1955

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In China

Among people born in China, Mo Yan ranks 139 out of 1,610. Before him are Zhang Qian (-200), Sun Jian (155), Bai Juyi (772), Hongzhi Emperor (1470), Wang Jingwei (1883), and Yue Fei (1142). After him are Yang Shangkun (1907), Emperor Jing of Han (-188), King Wen of Zhou (-1112), Emperor Hui of Han (-210), Tang of Shang (-1601), and Cao Rui (205).

Others born in China

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among WRITERS In China

Among writers born in China, Mo Yan ranks 10. Before him are Gao Xingjian (1940), Qu Yuan (-343), Luo Guanzhong (1330), Wu Cheng'en (1500), Kumārajīva (343), and Bai Juyi (772). After him are Faxian (340), Su Shi (1037), Wang Wei (699), Kang Youwei (1858), Cao Xueqin (1724), and Tao Yuanming (365).

Chinese born Writers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous