China’s Mo Yan wins Nobel for “hallucinatory realism”
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Chinese writer Mo Yan won the 2012 Nobel prize for literature on Thursday for works which combine "hallucinatory realism" with folk tales, history and contemporary life in China. Mo, who was once so destitute he ate tree bark and weeds to survive, is the first Chinese national to win the $1. 2 million literature prize, awarded by the Swedish Academy. He said the award made him "overjoyed and terrified". Some of his books have been banned as "provocative and vulgar" by Chinese authorities but he has also been criticized as being too close to the Communist Party. . . .
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