Chinese writer Mo wins Nobel Prize

Chinese writer Mo Yan has today been named the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.

Chinese writer Mo wins Nobel Prize
Thu, 11 Oct, 2012 - 13:17

Chinese writer Mo Yan has today been named the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.

The Swedish Academy, which selects the winners of the prestigious award, today praised Mo's "hallucinatoric realism" saying it "merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".

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