Mo Yan

Howard Goldblatt, translator of Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Mo Yan, discusses the challenges of translating Mo Yan’s Pow! in an exclusive talk with Paola Iovene, Assistant Professor in Chinese Literature at the University of Chicago. This event is co-sponsored with Asymptote, an online journal of literature from around the globe, as part of its second anniversary celebrations.

Location: Street: Seminary Co-op Bookstore Additional: 5751 S. Woodlawn Avenue City: Chicago, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60637-1507 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Mo Yan reads from Life and Death are Wearing Me Out.

Co-presented with WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY, The WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY, & KINOKUNIYA BOOKSTORE. 2009 begins most auspiciously as Mo Yan, one of the foremost novelists at work in the world today, reads and discusses his work in this evening which is believed to be part of his first-ever tour of the U.S. From Beijing, he is the author of numerous novels, among which are Red Sorghum, The Garlic Ballads, The Republic of Wine, and Big Breasts & Wide Hips. Most recent is the 2007 Man Asian Literary Prize winning novel, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (Arcade, translated by Howard Goldblatt). (KingRat)… (more)