Mo Yan, an invited professor of Dankook University since 2008, has been invited to the ‘World Author Festival’ to be held at Dankook University in Oct., 2013.
In the year 2000, world famous authors like Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian, poet Go-Eun, and director Zhang Yimou were named endowed professors of Dankook University.
Mo Yan (莫言, age 57), the original author of the movie ‘Red Sorghum’ and invited professor of Dankook University, was selected as the Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 2012.
Mo Yan, who is known as a pro-Korean author, has been working for Dankook University since Dec. 2008 as an invited professor ever since he shared his experiences and philosophy on his literature pieces at the ‘2008 Conversations with World Authors’ visiting Dankook University after receiving an invitation from Dankook University’s International Creativity Writing Center.
Mo Yan also attended the ‘World Author Festival’ hosted by Dankook University from Oct. 3-6, 2010, along with 40 other invited Nobel Prize in Literature winners and strong nominees for the prize and shared his imagination and experiences in his speech on ‘Poetic Soul of the Ocean,’ participating as a reader and a topic announcer on his work ‘Life is Difficult’.
At the time, Mo Yan even donated his brush-writing ‘藝高人膽大’ (Only the bold express themselves artistically) to Dankook University.
Dankook University is planning to invite Mo Yan to the ‘2013 World Author Festival’ to be held next October.
Dankook University also invited Gao Xingjian (age 71), a Nobel Prize winner of 2000, as an endowed professor emeritus. Gao Xingjian participated in the ‘2011 Conversations with World Authors’ hosted by Dankook University on May 24, 2011 and lectured on ‘The End of Ideology’.
Dankook University employs an impressive list of renowned scholars and talented individuals as endowed professors, including Director Zhang Yimou (Zhang Yemou), who became a world famous director by making Mo Yan’s ‘Red Sorghum’ into a movie; Poet Go-Eun, who was named for a Nobel Prize in Literature from Korea; and Kiu Zaifu, a representative scholar and literature critic of China.
▶ Professor Mo Yan, World Author Festival 2011