Mo Yan of China wins Nobel Prize for literature - CNN.com - 0 views
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Tom McHale on 11 Oct 12"Mo Yan -- a beloved Chinese author who has captivated his countrymen by intertwining fantasy and gritty everyday life -- won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Mo the prestigious prize, saying the author's "hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.""