Mo Yan, a renowned contemporary Chinese writer, is currently the Dean of the Literature Institute of the Chinese National Academy of Arts. He is the first Chinese national to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. Mo Yan’s major works include Red Sorghum(1987); The Garlic Ballads (1988); The Republic of Wine: A Novel (1993); Big Breasts and Wide Hips (1995); Sandalwood Death (2001); Pow (2003); Life and Death are Wearing Me Out (2006) and Frog (2009). His works have been translated into over 40 languages, including English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean … Etc. Mo Yan is the recipient of numerous awards including the French Arts and Literature Knight Medal, Italy’s Nonino Prize, the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize of Japan, the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, the Mao Dun Literature Prize and Korea’s Manhae Literary Prize.