Chinese Novelist Mo Yan Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Mo Yan after giving a reading in Hamburg, Germany. (Photo: Wiki commons)
The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to 57-year-old Chinese novelist Mo Yan.
The Swedish Academy praised Mo’s “hallucinatory realism,” saying it “merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.” Mo’s books include “Red Sorghum”, which was adapted for the silver screen in 1987, “Big Breasts & Wide Hips”, “Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out” and “Frog”.
The World’s Beijing correspondent Mary Kay Magistad says officials in China celebrated the news, though reactions overall were mixed.
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