On the morning of December 16th, the third “Literature Lecture” was held at Shandong University (SDU). This lecture was organized by the Literature and Journalism School(LJS). Two Nobel laureates participated in the lecture for high-level talks about “Literature and Life”. Jean Marie Gustave Le Clézio was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008 and Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. Therefore this is a beautiful conversation between two masters.

Zhang Rong, president of SDU, delivered a speech and issued the commemorative plaques to Mr. Mo Yan and Mr. Le Clézio. Vice president Chen Yan chaired the dialogue. The professor of Nanjing University Xu Jun as the translator and Mo Yan's wife Mrs. Du Qinlan attended the activity. This activity was presided by Zheng Chun.

In his speech, Zhang Rong firstly introduced the deep origin between Mr. Le Clézio and China and SDU, and reviewed the fit between Mr. Mo Yan and SDU. Zhang Rong said that literature is a kind of cross-border communication mode. This high-level dialogue is a cultural exchange between China and western countries, is a cultural feast, also is the eternal memory in one hundred - year history of SDU.

The conversation was divided into three parts: "Literature and Life", "Chinese culture and French culture" and "Le Clézio and Mo Yan". Le Clézio believed that the relationship between literature and life is very close. In the dark age, there was full of war, violence and ignorance, while literature brought the hope to human. Therefore, human, culture and nature are interdependent. He stressed that the writer needs to have a sense of responsibility, to reflect the human nature and life with his pen and to structure life. Mr. Mo Yan pointed out that the Literature is closely related to life. On the one hand, there is no life, no literature, and literature exists for human beings; on the other hand, literature has a significant impact on the people, and everyone is a potential readers. As a writer, he should write the most valuable and individual life experience, create the most real typical image, so as to inspire people's life.

Le Clézio and Mo Yan shared their understanding on Sino-French culture. Le Clézio said that Chinese literary and artistic thought is broad and profound, Chinese literature has the imagination and poetic charm. Mo Yan pointed out that the French culture has an important influence on the Chinese contemporary writers, not only delivers free romantic French enlightenment spirit, but also enlightens China writers how to write a novel. Two eminent writers also exchanged their experiences and harvest after reading each other's works. Le Clézio pointed out that humor is what he admire most about Mo Yan’s novels and the sense of humor actually pulls far distance with the real suffering in life, so as to realizes the life thinking and creation. Humor is the most powerful fight in the face of despair. When Mo Yan talked about Le Clézio’s works, he said the most impressive description to him was the hunger experience during Childhood, the soul communication between children and the special natural landscape. He pointed out that the most moving part of a writer’s work should be able to cause resonance with readers.

The dialogue remained light and friendly. At the end of the dialogue, Mo Yan and Le Clézio discussed with the teachers and students on the forms of writing, creative ideas, subject interpretation and other issues. Nearly 500 teachers and students attended the lecture.

Jean Marie Gustave Le Clézio was born in 1940, usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, is a French-Mauritian writer and professor. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procès-Verbal, as well as the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature for his life's work, as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization".

Mo Yan was born in 1955, in Gaomi County in Shandong province. Mo Yan is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. In 2012, Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". It is the first time for a writer of Chinese nationality to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Mo Yan has written 11 novels, and several novellas and short story collections, such as《 Red Sorghum Clan》, 《Sandalwood Death》,《 Big Breasts & Wide Hips》, and 《Frog》(2011: Mao Dun Literature Prize).