Born into ____ poor family in Gaomi, Shandong Province on February 17, 1955, Mo Yan,____original name is Guan Moye, threw himself into reading and calligraphy____(enthusiastic) in his early years. Not only did he have a strong sense of humor,____he was intelligent and patient. With his attention ____ (fix) on literature, Mo Yan went on further education and received a Master's Degree in arts from Beijing University five years later after graduating from the PLA Academy of Arts in 1986. What happened next was____he won China's ____ (high) literary prize — Mao Dun Literature Prize by his book Frog in 2011. To all Chinese's____(amaze), he became the first Chinese writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012, which will certainly make great contributions to development of Chinese literature. Since then, he ____(consider) as the best Chinese writer in modern China. Although he is famous, he is still as common as an old shoe and he doesn't keep his readers____a distance.