News Portal: Chinese writer Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Thursday, October 11, 2012, 16:47:14 (IST)

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Chinese writer Mo Yan has won the 2012 Nobel prize for literature for works which the awarding committee said had qualities of "hallucinatory realism". The prize won by the writer is worth eight million crowns and was given by the Swedish Academy. 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.