Mo Yan

Dear readers,

         Today I'm going to writte about Mo Yan, a Chinese novelist and short story writter that he won a nobel prize in literature in 2012. He was born in Gaomi, Shandong, China in the 17th of february in 1955.

He is best known to Western readers for his 1987 novel Red Sorghum Clan, of which the Red Sorghum and Sorghum Wine volumes were later adapted for the film Red Sorghum. In 2012, Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".

On 11 October 2012, the Swedish Academy announced that Mo Yan had received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work that "withhallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". Aged 57 at the time of the announcement, he was the 109th recipient of the award and the first ever resident of mainland China to receive it—Chinese-born Gao Xingjian, a citizen of France, having been named the 2000 laureate. In his Award Ceremony Speech, Per Wästberg explained: "Mo Yan is a poet who tears down stereotypical propaganda posters, elevating the individual from an anonymous human mass. Using ridicule and sarcasm Mo Yan attacks history and its falsifications as well as deprivation and political hypocrisy."

Swedish Academy head Peter Englund said less formally, "He has such a damn unique way of writing. If you read half a page of Mo Yan you immediately recognize it as him".  wikipedia

Mo Yan did the career in the Army, and actually is the vicepresident of the Association of the Writters of "PC". Despite to all the critics spilled against the Chinese regimen, evident in his fantastic novels, to the author they considerate a loyal person.

I have just read an article about Mo Yan and he sais:" My enemies are almost the writers"

NO TO THE VIOLENCE AGAINST THE WOMAN!

Dear readers,

  Yesterday was the international day to say NO to the violence against the woman and I have decided to write about this theme because I think it is a serious problem.
In the European Union (EU) they have done a report with 42,000 women across the 28 Member States. It shows that violence against women, and specifically gender-based violence that disproportionately affects women, is an extensive human rights abuse that the EU cannot afford to overlook. Click here to obtain more information.

The World Health Organization defines violence as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation", but acknowledges that the inclusion of "the use of power" in its definition expands on the conventional meaning of the word.

Here you have a video about the violence against the woman.