The announced the 2013 'Chinese Writers Rich List' (中国作家富豪榜) a couple of weeks ago; I've been hoping for some better English language-coverage to link to, but none seems forthcoming.
The best I can find is the obnoxious eleven-page slideshow of the top ten Chinese authors with the highest royalty income in 2013 at People's Daily Online, Ten richest Chinese authors in 2013. Mo Yan does come in second, pulling in 24 million yuan (about US$3,950,000), but narrowly beating him out is ... fantasy writer Jiang Nan.
See the full top 60 list -- in Chinese -- here.
Among the additional lists they compile is that of the highest-earning foreign writers, and J.K.Rowling again topped that list, though her Chinese take of 8.5 million yuan is down considerably from the 15 million she raked in in 2012; see the full list -- in Chinese -- here. Murakami Haruki came in second -- and Alice Munro's Nobel win managed to get her up to 15th position, with a take of a million yuan.
The best I can find is the obnoxious eleven-page slideshow of the top ten Chinese authors with the highest royalty income in 2013 at People's Daily Online, Ten richest Chinese authors in 2013. Mo Yan does come in second, pulling in 24 million yuan (about US$3,950,000), but narrowly beating him out is ... fantasy writer Jiang Nan.
See the full top 60 list -- in Chinese -- here.
Among the additional lists they compile is that of the highest-earning foreign writers, and J.K.Rowling again topped that list, though her Chinese take of 8.5 million yuan is down considerably from the 15 million she raked in in 2012; see the full list -- in Chinese -- here. Murakami Haruki came in second -- and Alice Munro's Nobel win managed to get her up to 15th position, with a take of a million yuan.