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Mo Yan

Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. His works include Red Sorghum, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out and Frog.

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Fiction | Issue 169
Fiction | Issue 169

The Leftie Sickle

Mo Yan

‘When they were working, Old Han held the tongs, Young Han swung the sledgehammer, and Old Third worked the bellows to raise the heat.’

A short story by Mo Yan, translated by Nicky Harman.

Fiction | Issue 169
Fiction | Issue 169

Frogs

Mo Yan

‘Once the preposterous reality set in, we were overcome by sadness.’

In Conversation | Issue 169
In Conversation | Issue 169

Mo Yan | Interview

Mo Yan & John Freeman

‘My life is more current, more contemporary and the cutting throat cruelty of our contemporary times limits the romance that I once felt.’

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