Mo Yan. File photo

Name: Mo Yan

Ranking: 2

Royalty income:　24 million yuan

Bestseller: "Frog” 《蛙》

Age: 58

Guan Moye (DOB: Feb 17, 1955), better known by his pen name Mo Yan, claimed the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy credited his writing skill by calling "with hallucinatory realism that merges folk tales, history with the contemporary." His representative works include "Red Sorghum," “Sandalwood Death”, “Big Breasts and Wide Hips” and “Frog”.

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