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| Chinese author Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize for Literature | Chinese author Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize for Literature |
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| Chinese author Mo Yan has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for literature. | Chinese author Mo Yan has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for literature. |
| A prolific author, Mo has published dozens of short stories, with his first work published in 1981. | |
| The Swedish Academy praised his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". | The Swedish Academy praised his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". |
| The 57-year-old is the first Chinese resident to win the prize. Chinese-born Gao Xingjian was honoured in 2000, but is a French citizen. | |
| Mo is the 109th recipient of the prestigious prize, won last year by Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer. | |
| Presented by the Nobel Foundation, the award - only given to living writers - is worth 8 million kronor (£741,000). | Presented by the Nobel Foundation, the award - only given to living writers - is worth 8 million kronor (£741,000). |
| Born Guan Moye, the author writes under the pen name Mo Yan, which means "don't speak" in Chinese. | |
| He began writing while a soldier in the People's Liberation Army and received international fame in 1987 with Red Sorghum: A Novel of China, which was made into a film. |