Nobel Lecture Series: April Lecture Subject: Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature Winner 2016.04.25

Non-CAS Event

Monday, April 25, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl Street

Mo Yan has been among the most controversial laureates of Nobel Prize for Literature. Lauded as a practitioner of hallucinatory realism, he has garnered a wide readership in China and throughout the world with novels set in his north China homeland. He has fictionalized the lives of Chinese from varied walks of life to wide acclaim. And yet he has been attacked as a shill for the Communist Party by critics such as Salman Rushdie and and Herta Mueller, and has endured criticism for his perceived stance on human rights in the New York Review of Books and elsewhere. We will talk about this and take a look at some of his work with translator Howard Goldblatt.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures.

This is a FREE event, open to all!