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Aaaand the Winner of the Nobel Lit 5000 is ... Mo Yan!
Aaaand the Winner of the Nobel Lit 5000 is ... Mo Yan!
By Misha Grunbaum
October 12, 2012

Haruki Murakami, there's always next year.

This year's Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Mo Yan, a Chinese writer whose pen name — in English, "Don't Speak" — is a nod to the censorship under which he writes his books.

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