In this photo taken Monday, Oct 22, 2007, Chinese writer Mo Yan speaks during an interview at a teahouse in Beijing. Mo won the Nobel Prize for literature Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Aritz ...

Mo Yan ought to be in his element. The 55-year-old Chinese writer (Mo Yan is a pen name, Guan Moye his real one) is in his hometown of Gaomi, Shandong province, a place he has described as the ...

Saint Malo june 4. File photo: chinese author Mo Yan at book fair in Saint Malo, France. Photo by Ulf Andersen / Getty Images Saint Malo june 4. File photo: chinese author Mo Yan at book fair in Saint ...

BEIJING -- State media gave the official stamp of approval Friday over the decision to award the Nobel Prize for literature to Chinese novelist Mo Yan, giving him front-page coverage across the ...

When a non-Anglophone writer wins the Nobel Prize in Literature, as Mo Yan, the Chinese novelist, did this morning, it’s natural to seek out points of comparison closer to home: Mo has been compared ...

Chinese author Mo Yan took this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature for his “hallucinatory realism” that “merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.” In China, the Washington Post writes, national ...

Chinese writer Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Literature Prize winner, attending the premiere of a TV series in Ningbo, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, in July 2010. (STR/AFP/GettyImages). This story ...

Whether or not I deserved the Nobel Prize, I already received it, and now it's time to get back to my writing desk and produce a good work. I hear that the 2013 list of Nobel Prize nominees has been ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Mo Yan, who has won the Nobel literature prize, was forced to drop out of primary school and herd cattle during China's Cultural Revolution and was sometimes so destitute he ate ...

In 2005, Mo Yan, who today won the Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote a remarkable brief memoir for Le Monde (available to the newspaper’s subscribers) in which he described what he calls “an event that ...

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2012 is awarded to the Chinese writer Mo Yan, "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary," announced Peter Englund, Permanent ...

LONDON — Mo Yan, a prolific and internationally renowned Chinese author who considers himself nonpolitical but whose embrace by the ruling Communist Party has drawn criticism from dissident writers, ...