Nobel Prize 2012: Mo Yan

       As noted yesterday -- already with extensive linkage -- Mo Yan was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature.

       Here now some more information and additional links.

       A few more general Mo Yan articles:

• 'Margaret Hillenbrand assesses the mythic vision of Mo Yan' in The Telegraph, in Mo Yan, the Nobel prize-winner: his writing explained (a headline that promises a bit too much ...)
  
  
• Boyd Tonkin covers all the bases in finding: Mo Yan: A rebel, a conformist and a decidedly mainstream choice

       As to the work, let's start with the most recent: in China Daily Liu Jun reports Newest novel a rural drama -- that being 蛙 ('Frog', not yet available in English).
       蛙 also isn't the next Mo title coming out in English, as the two books that are due out in early 2013 are:

• Pow !, forthcoming from Seagull; pre-order your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
  
  
• Sandalwood Death, forthcoming from the University of Oklahoma Press; see their publicity page and read an excerpt in Chinese Literature Today; no Amazon listings yet

       As to the work that is available in English -- well, you can start out with the selection of Excerpts From His Work at The New York Times.

       As to individual works:

• Big Breasts, Wide Hips:
  • Arcade publicity page
  • Get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
  • Reviews:
    • The New Yorker (John Updike)
    • San Francisco Chronicle
    • TLS
    • The Washington Post
  
  
• The Garlic Ballads:
  • Arcade publicity page
  • Get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
  • Reviews:
    • The NY Times Book Review
    • TLS
  
  
• Life and Death are Wearing Me Out:
  • Arcade publicity page
  • Get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
  • Reviews:
    • The NY Times Book Review
  
  
• Red Sorghum:
  • Penguin publicity page
  • Get your copy at Amazon.com
  • Reviews:
    • The NY Times Book Review
  
  
• The Republic of Wine:
  • Arcade publicity page
  • Get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
  • Reviews:
    • The NY Times Book Review
    • San Francisco Chronicle
    • TLS
  
  
• Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh
  • Arcade publicity page
  • Get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
  • Reviews:
    • The NY Times Book Review
    • San Francisco Chronicle
    • TLS

       Another book that might be of interest: Shelley W. Chan's A Subversive Voice in China: The Fictional World of Mo Yan; see the Cambria publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.

       And in Lire André Clavel suggests Cinq livres de Mo Yan à découvrir.