The Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 Award Ceremony Speech
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen,
尊敬的国王和皇后陛下，尊敬的诺贝尔奖得主们，女士们先生们，
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. Playfully and with ill-disguised delight, he reveals the murkiest aspects of human existence, almost inadvertently finding images of strong symbolic weight。
莫言是个诗人，他扯下程式化的宣传画，使个人从茫茫无名大众中突出出来。 他用嘲笑和讽刺的笔触，攻击历史和谬误以及贫乏和政治虚伪。他有技巧的揭露了人类最阴暗的一面，在不经意间给象征赋予了形象。
North-eastern Gaomi county embodies China’s folk tales and history. Few real journeys can surpass these to a realm where the clamour of donkeys and pigs drowns out the voices of the people’s commissars and where both love and evil assume supernatural proportions。
高密东北乡体现了中国的民间故事和历史。在这些民间故事中，驴与猪的吵闹淹没了人的声音，爱与邪恶被赋予了超自然的能量。
Mo Yan’s imagination soars across the entire human existence. He is a wonderful portrayer of nature; he knows virtually all there is to know about hunger, and the brutality of China’s 20th century has probably never been described so nakedly, with heroes, lovers, torturers, bandits – and especially, strong, indomitable mothers. He shows us a world without truth, common sense or compassion, a world where people are reckless, helpless and absurd。
