Mo Yans wins Nobel Prize in Literature

CHINESE WRITE MO YAN WINS NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE FOR ‘HALLUCINATORY REALISM’

Novelist Mo Yan, whose popular, sprawling, bawdy tales bring to life rural China, won the Nobel Prize for literature Thursday, the first time the award has been given to a Chinese who is not a critic of the authoritarian government. Official media and many Chinese cheered his selection. The Swedish Academy in Stockholm, which selects … Continue reading →