Mo Yan is a Chinese writer. He gained attention for his 1984 novella, A Transparent Radish, and rose to international fame for his 1986 novel Red Sorghum, the first two parts of which were adapted into the Golden Bear-winning film Red Sorghum (1988). In 2012, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".

- Red Sorghum 1987 novel war, resistance, family, japan, brutality en

- The Garlic Ballads: A Novel 1988 novel china, historical, oppression, resistance en

- The Republic of Wine 1992 novel china, corruption, cannibalism, satire en

- Big Breasts and Wide Hips 1996 novel motherhood, survival, war, china, historical en

- Sandalwood Death 2001 novel china, historical, torture, rebellion en

- Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh 2001 short-stories satire, fantasy, poverty, china en

- Pow! 2003 novel china, satire, hunger, meat en

- Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out 2006 novel china, historical, reincarnation, satire en

- Frog 2009 novel china, historical, motherhood, trauma en

- Radish 2015 short-stories china, childhood, poverty, labor en