This author’s frequent translator Mabel Lee translated their story collection Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author, who won the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature shortly after the publication of the English translation of their novel about "I," who is wrongly diagnosed with cancer.
ANSWER: Gāo Xíngjiàn (“gao sheeng-J’YAN”) (The novel is Soul Mountain.)
[10e] Though he later started using French, Gāo Xíngjiàn was the first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature to mainly use this language, which was also used by the later Nobel winner Mò Yán.
ANSWER: Chinese [or zhōngwén; accept Standard Chinese; accept Mandarin or hànyǔ]
[10m] Although she was born in the US, this 1938 Literature Nobel winner grew up in China, which inspired her novel about Wang Lung and O-Lan.
ANSWER: Pearl S. Buck [or Pearl Sydenstricker Buck; or Sai Zhenzhu] (The novel is The Good Earth.)
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