#NobelPrize: Mo Yan Wins the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature
At a few minutes to 11 am GMT, the Nobel Committee announced Chinese writer Mo Yan (57) as the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. The author whose works are often banned in his home country and are widely pirated is known for works such as Red Sorghum and Garlic Ballads. His recent work Frog was published last year and won the Mao Dun Literature Prize, 2011. Mo Yan - meaning 'don't speak' - is a pseudonym for Guan Moye; he becomes the first Asian since Kenzaburo Oe won it in 1994 - and if you count out his compatriot Gao Xianjing (2000) who is a citizen of France, he is the first non-European winner since 2003. Technically, Mo Yan is the first Chinese to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature. According to the Nobel Committee, The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Mo Yan Who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary. This award which, until now, had been given 108 times since 1901, and had su...