Guan, a native of Gaomi, Shandong Province, was born in February 2005 1955, and was the first writer in China to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He rose with a series of local works in1980s, full of complex feelings of "homesickness" and "resentment", and was classified as a "root-seeking literature" writer.
His main works include: Transparent Carrot, Red Sorghum, Sandalwood Punishment, Wine Country, Song of Young Garlic in Paradise, Forty-one Cannons, Breast and Hip, Fatigue of Life and Death, Frog, etc.
20 1 1 won the Mao dun literature prize. Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded in 20 12.