Mo Yan, the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, said he is not sure about whether he is happy after winning the prize.
In an interview with China Central Television broadcast on Sunday night, Mo said “I don't know,” when a reporter asked if he was happy.“Happiness means a healthy body and a total absence of mental burdens, but now I’m under high pressure and bothered by worries. Can I say that I'm happy?” he said. “But if I say I'm not happy, people will consider that I'm striking a pose. How could you be unhappy after winning the Nobel Prize?”
Mo, born into a farmer’s family in East China’s Shandong province, As a 12-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.
“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),” said the academy in a statement of Mo’s biography. Red Sorghum was successfully filmed in 1987, directed by famous Chinese director Zhang Yimou.
Mo won the Nobel Prize for Literature, which is worth $1.2 million, on Oct 11 for his “hallucinatory realism” which merges “folk tales, history and the contemporary”. Dozens of his works have been translated into English, French and Japanese and many other languages.
He is the first Chinese citizen to win the prize.The award sparked strong interest about contemporary Chinese literature among the public, and his books have been flying off the shelves in many bookstores across the country.
小题1:The followings are TRUE except_____________.
A．He has won about 8 million yuan.
B．His works are all about farmers.
C．He has a big influence on Chinese contemporary literature.
D．Reporters have interviewed him about his winning.小题2:From the passage we can know__________.
A．He won the prize because of his story Red Sorghum.
B．He wanted to become a writer when he was very young.
C．Mo Yan’s works have been translated into Russian.
D．Mo Yan was born in a farmer family.小题3:What is Paragraph Three mainly about ?
A．His different work.
B．His early life.
C．He switched over to literature.
D．His family and hometown.小题4:What can we infer from the passage?
A．Mo Yan is very happy to win the Nobel Prize.
B．More and more readers are buying Mo’s books to read in China.
C．Winning the Nobel Prize is not easy.
D．Mo Yan won the prize with the help of Zhang Yimou.
