Interview | Mo Yan | Granta Magazine

Mo Yan | Interview

Mo Yan & John Freeman

‘My life is more current, more contemporary and the cutting throat cruelty of our contemporary times limits the romance that I once felt.’

Mo Yan

Mo Yan is a Chinese writer. His books include Red Sorghum, Big Breasts & Wide Hips, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out and Frog. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Mao Dun Literary Prize.

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John Freeman

John Freeman is the founder of the literary annual Freeman's and an executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. He is also the author and editor of eleven books, including Dictionary of the Undoing; There's a Revolution Outside, My Love (co-edited with Tracy K Smith), and Wind, Trees, a new collection of poems. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and been translated into more than twenty languages. Once a month he hosts The California Book Club, an online discussion of a classic book of golden state literature for Alta magazine. He lives in New York City.

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