SWEDEN: Chinese writer Mo Yan wins the 2012 Nobel prize for literature for works with qualities of 'hallucinatory realism'

Record ID: 187173

  • Title: SWEDEN: Chinese writer Mo Yan wins the 2012 Nobel prize for literature for works with qualities of 'hallucinatory realism'
  • Date: 12th October 2012
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  • Embargoed: 27th October 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Sweden
  • Country: Sweden
  • Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment / Showbiz
  • Reuters ID: LVA7LHAUPNFVIM8R4Y0CX07NBOEL
  • Story Text: Chinese writer Mo Yan won the 2012 Nobel prize for literature on Thursday (October 11) for works which the awarding committee said had qualities of "hallucinatory realism".
    The prize is worth 8 million crowns ($1.2 million) and was given by the Swedish Academy.
    "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," said the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, Peter Englund.
    The literature prize is the fourth of this year's crop of prizes, which were established in the will of Swedish dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel and awarded for the first time in 1901.
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