☆ノーベル文学賞は中国の莫言氏！（村上春樹氏またも逃す）
☆２０１２年ノーベル文学賞は中国の莫言氏が受賞したと日本時間午後８時にスウェーデン王立科学アカデミーより発表された。村上春樹氏は残念ながら今年も受賞を逃した。なお、ノーベル文学賞の中国人受賞者は史上初めてとなる。スウェーデン王立科学アカデミーは、現実と幻想の世界を融合させた独特の表現方法で中国の農村生活を描きだした著作などで知られる中国の代表的作家、莫言氏（５７）に授与すると発表した。中国人のノーベル賞受賞は、２０１０年に民主活動家の劉暁波氏（国家政権転覆扇動罪で服役中）が平和賞を受賞して以来、２年ぶり。有力候補とされていた村上春樹氏は今年も受賞を逃した。今年５７歳の莫言氏は中国で最も著名な作家の一人で、代表作は「紅高粱家族」「天堂蒜薹之歌」「豊乳肥臀」など。(莫言/ MO YAN)Biobibliographical notesMo Yan (a pseudonym for Guan Moye) was born in 1955 and grew up in Gaomi in Shandong province in north-eastern China. His parents were farmers. As a twelve-year-old during the Cultural Revolution he left school to work, first in agriculture, later in a factory. In 1976 he joined the People's Liberation Army and during this time began to study literature and write. His first short story was published in a literary journal in 1981. His breakthrough came a few years later with the novella Touming de hong luobo (1986, published in French as Le radis de cristal 1993).In his writing Mo Yan draws on his youthful experiences and on settings in the province of his birth. This is apparent in his novel Hong gaoliang jiazu (1987, in English Red Sorghum 1993). The book consists of five stories that unfold and interweave in Gaomi in several turbulent decades in the 20th century, with depictions of bandit culture, the Japanese occupation and the harsh conditions endured by poor farm workers. Red Sorghum was successfully filmed in 1987, directed by Zhang Yimou. The novel Tiantang suantai zhi ge (1988, in English The Garlic Ballads 1995) and his satirical Jiuguo (1992, in English The Republic of Wine 2000) have been judged subversive because of their sharp criticism of contemporary Chinese society.Fengru feitun (1996, in English Big Breasts and Wide Hips 2004) is a broad historical fresco portraying 20th-century China through the microcosm of a single family. The novel Shengsi pilao (2006, in English Life and Death are Wearing Me Out 2008) uses black humour to describe everyday life and the violent transmogrifications in the young People's Republic, while Tanxiangxing (2004, to be published in English as Sandalwood Death 2013) is a story of human cruelty in the crumbling Empire. Mo Yan's latest novel Wa (2009, in French Grenouilles 2011) illuminates the consequences of China's imposition of a single-child policy.Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition. In addition to his novels, Mo Yan has published many short stories and essays on various topics, and despite his social criticism is seen in his homeland as one of the foremost contemporary authors.
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