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 630,785 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 83 in 2019). Mo Yan is the 567th most popular writer (down from 543rd in 2019), the 131st most popular biography from China (down from 126th in 2019) and the 7th 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 567 out of 5,794. Before him are Ludwig Tieck, George R. R. Martin, Longus, Lion Feuchtwanger, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Sándor Petőfi. After him are Marie-Antoine Carême, Dean Koontz, Gustav Meyrink, Novatian, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Samuel Butler.
1773 - 1853
HPI: 73.73
Rank: 561
1948 - Present
HPI: 73.73
Rank: 562
110 - 200
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 563
1884 - 1958
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 564
1849 - 1924
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 565
1823 - 1849
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 566
1955 - Present
HPI: 73.67
Rank: 567
1784 - 1833
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 568
1945 - Present
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 569
1868 - 1932
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 570
220 - 258
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 571
1954 - Present
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 572
1835 - 1902
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 573
Among people born in 1955, Mo Yan ranks 18. Before him are Whoopi Goldberg, Kris Jenner, Angus Young, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Willem Dafoe, and Ornella Muti. After him are Isabelle Adjani, Li Keqiang, Akira Toriyama, Chow Yun-fat, Gary Sinise, and Donatella Versace.
1955 - Present
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 12
1955 - Present
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 13
1955 - Present
HPI: 74.12
Rank: 14
1955 - Present
HPI: 74.06
Rank: 15
1955 - Present
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 16
1955 - Present
HPI: 73.71
Rank: 17
1955 - Present
HPI: 73.67
Rank: 18
1955 - Present
HPI: 73.65
Rank: 19
1955 - Present
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 20
1955 - Present
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 21
1955 - Present
HPI: 72.43
Rank: 22
1955 - Present
HPI: 71.82
Rank: 23
1955 - Present
HPI: 71.76
Rank: 24
Among people born in China, Mo Yan ranks 131 out of 1,186. Before him are I. M. Pei (1917), Yue Fei (1142), Emperor Ruizong of Tang (662), Emperor Wen of Han (-202), Zhengde Emperor (1491), and Temür Khan (1265). After him are Liu Shan (207), Ma Chao (176), Wang Wei (699), Yu the Great (-2123), 1st Dalai Lama (1391), and Li Keqiang (1955).
1917 - 2019
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 125
1142 - 1142
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 126
662 - 716
HPI: 73.73
Rank: 127
202 BC - 157 BC
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 128
1491 - 1521
HPI: 73.69
Rank: 129
1265 - 1307
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 130
1955 - Present
HPI: 73.67
Rank: 131
207 - 271
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 132
176 - 222
HPI: 73.65
Rank: 133
699 - 759
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 134
2123 BC - 2055 BC
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 135
1391 - 1474
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 136
1955 - Present
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 137
Among writers born in China, Mo Yan ranks 7. Before him are Du Fu (712), Lu Xun (1881), Gao Xingjian (1940), Qu Yuan (-343), Wu Cheng'en (1500), and Luo Guanzhong (1330). After him are Wang Wei (699), Bai Juyi (772), Kumārajīva (343), Jin Yong (1924), Zhang Sanfeng (1200), and Su Shi (1037).
712 - 770
HPI: 80.25
Rank: 1
1881 - 1936
HPI: 79.03
Rank: 2
1940 - Present
HPI: 76.92
Rank: 3
343 BC - 278 BC
HPI: 75.64
Rank: 4
1500 - 1582
HPI: 74.76
Rank: 5
1330 - 1400
HPI: 74.02
Rank: 6
1955 - Present
HPI: 73.67
Rank: 7
699 - 759
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 8
772 - 846
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 9
343 - 413
HPI: 72.98
Rank: 10
1924 - 2018
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 11
1200 - 1301
HPI: 72.63
Rank: 12
1037 - 1101
HPI: 72.54
Rank: 13