Red Sorghum: A Novel of China Mo Yan
Publisher: Viking Penguin

Oct 12, 2012 - Last night Mo Yan – the author of Red Sorghum, Big Breasts & Wide Hips, and Life And Death Are Wearing Me Out – became the first Chinese national author to win the Nobel Prize for literature in its 111 year history. Oct 15, 2012 - Red Sorghum Book Cover China celebrated another achievement last week, as Mo Yan became the first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize for literature. Nov 9, 2012 - Springfield, Ohio – Nobel Prize-winning Chinese novelist Mo Yan, author of the acclaimed novel Red Sorghum, is the subject of a Reading & Roundtable Discussion at 4 p.m. Oct 11, 2012 - That astonishing essay becomes all the more relevant in the cinematic context that first brought Mo's name to light here, the 1988 release of Zhang Yimou's film “Red Sorghum,” based on Mo's novel of the same title (which was subsequently translated by Howard Goldblatt) The generation of directors that rose in Jia's wake—including Wang Bing, Ying Liang, Lou Ye, and Zhao Liang—made films that are important in both the history of China and the history of cinema. Oct 19, 2012 - As many dissident Chinese writers and artists, from Ai Weiwei to Ma Jian, pointed out after he had been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, Mo Yan's silence has lived up to the name he took years ago, when he began writing. Oct 11, 2012 - Hong Kong : Research Centre for Translations, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1991. Red Sorghum : a Novel of China / translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt. The prize, bestowed by the Swedish Academy to 'the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction' is generally awarded for a writer's entire body of work rather than a single novel. Jun 26, 2013 - Red Sorghum (1987). Aug 26, 2013 - Ten years after her last television drama, Zhou Xun is now signed on to play the female lead in the television adaptation of Mo Yan's novel Red Sorghum. Red Sorghum is a 1987 Chinese film about a young woman's life working on a distillery for sorghum liquor.