1955 - Today
Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè; born 17 February 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. In 2012, Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".He is best known to Western readers for his 1986 novel Red Sorghum, the first two parts of which were adapted as the Golden Bear-winning film Red Sorghum (1988). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mo Yan has received more than 710,279 page views. His biography is available in 92 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 86 in 2019). Mo Yan is the 569th most popular writer (down from 567th in 2019), the 149th most popular biography from China (down from 131st in 2019) and the 9th 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.
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Among writers, Mo Yan ranks 569 out of 5,755. Before him are Percy Fawcett, Saint Naum, Jacob L. Moreno, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Theocritus, and Sándor Petőfi. After him are Lion Feuchtwanger, Dietrich Eckart, Eyvind Johnson, Isaac Babel, Dino Buzzati, and Juan Ramón Jiménez.
1867 - 1925
HPI: 65.50
Rank: 563
830 - 910
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 564
1889 - 1974
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 565
1922 - 2008
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 566
315 BC - 260 BC
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 567
1823 - 1849
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 568
1955 - Present
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 569
1884 - 1958
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 570
1868 - 1923
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 571
1900 - 1976
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 572
1894 - 1940
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 573
1906 - 1972
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 574
1881 - 1958
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 575
Among people born in 1955, Mo Yan ranks 20. Before him are Sergey Shoygu, Ornella Muti, Isabelle Adjani, Angus Young, Li Keqiang, and Ludovico Einaudi. After him are Nina Hagen, Donatella Versace, Guillermo Lasso, Akira Toriyama, Chow Yun-fat, and Liu Xiaobo.
1955 - Present
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 14
1955 - Present
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 15
1955 - Present
HPI: 66.13
Rank: 16
1955 - Present
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 17
1955 - Present
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 18
1955 - Present
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 19
1955 - Present
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 20
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 21
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 22
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 23
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 24
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.18
Rank: 25
1955 - 2017
HPI: 63.99
Rank: 26
Among people born in China, Mo Yan ranks 149 out of 1,392. Before him are Li Keqiang (1955), Luo Guanzhong (1330), Zhang Yimou (1950), Zhengde Emperor (1491), Wang Wei (699), and Faxian (340). After him are Hyeonjong of Joseon (1641), Wen Jiabao (1942), Pang Tong (179), Emperor Taizong of Song (939), Emperor Shenzong of Song (1048), and 1st Dalai Lama (1391).
1955 - Present
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 143
1330 - 1400
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 144
1950 - Present
HPI: 65.65
Rank: 145
1491 - 1521
HPI: 65.60
Rank: 146
699 - 759
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 147
340 - 418
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 148
1955 - Present
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 149
1641 - 1674
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 150
1942 - Present
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 151
179 - 214
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 152
939 - 997
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 153
1048 - 1085
HPI: 65.14
Rank: 154
1391 - 1474
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 155
Among writers born in China, Mo Yan ranks 9. Before him are Gao Xingjian (1940), Qu Yuan (-343), Wu Cheng'en (1500), Luo Guanzhong (1330), Wang Wei (699), and Faxian (340). After him are Bai Juyi (772), Kumārajīva (343), Jin Yong (1924), Kang Youwei (1858), Su Shi (1037), and Zhang Sanfeng (1200).
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 3
343 BC - 278 BC
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 4
1500 - 1582
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 5
1330 - 1400
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 6
699 - 759
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 7
340 - 418
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 8
1955 - Present
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 9
772 - 846
HPI: 64.77
Rank: 10
343 - 413
HPI: 64.20
Rank: 11
1924 - 2018
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 12
1858 - 1927
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 13
1037 - 1101
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 14
1200 - 1301
HPI: 62.44
Rank: 15