Just minutes after the Swedish Academy gave the award to Chinese writer Mo Yan, state-run television broke into its usual programming to relay....
Mo Yan writes about political tensions in Chinese society and the tragic mistakes of the Chinese Communist Party with humanism and conscience.
2012 Nobel Prize in Literature
Award
| 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature | |
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"who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary." | |
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| Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Presented by | Swedish Academy |
| First awarded | 1901 |
| Website | Official website |
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Chinese writer Mo Yan (born 1955) "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary."[1] He is the second Chinese author to win the prize after the exiled Gao Xingjian.[2]
Laureate
Main article: Mo Yan
Mo Yan's writings cover a wide span from short stories, to novels and essays.
His earlier works such as Bái gǒu qiūqiān jià ("White Dog and the Swing", 1981–1989) – were written according to the prevailing literary dictates of the ruling regime. Over time, however, his storytelling began