Mo Yan has become the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012 for his work Frogs.

　　Many got to know of Mo through director Zhang Yimou's film，Red Sorghum (《红高粱》)．It was adapted from his 1986 novel of the same name and filmed in Gaomi，bringing to life a visual landscape of red sorghum fields and a fiery setting sun.His most famous works include Big Breasts and Wide Hips，Sandalwood Penalty and the 1985 novel Red Transparent Radish.

　　Mo dropped out of school and became a cattle herder when he was a child.At 20，he left his hometown and joined the army.Mo left the army in 1997 and gradually developed a writing style of his own.Gaomi County is where most of Mo's stories happen.It's a place that has inspired him throughout his 31­year writing career.

　　"I grew up in an environment full of folk culture，which comes into my novels when I pick up a pen to write.This has definitely affected，even decided，my works' artistic style，" Mo told a group of reporters in his hometown of Gaomi，Shandong，shortly after he won the award.

　　"I really didn't see this coming，" Lu Jiande，director of the Institute of Literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences，told 21st Century."I know Mo Yan pretty well and one thing a lot of people don't know is how beautiful his words are.His writing is surprisingly beautiful.In his writing，he can make words live and breathing，"Lu said."He is far ahead of other Chinese in the sense that he takes the critical perspective inside first，starting from criticizing himself instead of the outside world."

　　Some critics point out that Mo's works have a tendency toward vulgarity (粗俗)．

　　In an interview with South China Morning Post，Professor Xiao Ying of Tsinghua University said "the award is out of my expectation，as Mo Yan's works are still short of the idealism of pursuing humanity，which marks previous Nobel literature prize winners"．

　　【语篇解读】　本文对莫言及其作品和外界对其作品的评价作了简要介绍。

　　1．Which of the following statements about Mo Yan is RIGHT?

A．He was the first Chinese to win the Nobel Prize.