Nobel winner says some works in his name are not his

Mo Yan speaks at a ceremony in Regent's Park College, University of Oxford, where he was awarded an honorary fellowship, in June 2019. Nobel Prize Laureate Mo Yan recently published an article on his WeChat account clarifying that many poems and articles apparently signed with his name online were actually not his works. Apart from a 32-second video, which in an amusing way shows the writer's confusion, a handwritten letter is also posted, in which Mo replied to a reader named Lin Quan, who asked him whether a poem titled On Wine and Beauty was written by him. In 2020, Mo wrote a novella Hongchun Lyuzui that was included in his latest book A Late Bloomer, in which he created a "troll" that fabricated fake news online. In 2017, Beijing Lu Xun Museum released a database where people can check whether certain quotes are truly by Lu Xun, one of the most influential modern Chinese writers.