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Mo Yan Cultural Experience in Bad Decline
Mo Yan Cultural Experience in Bad Decline
By Misha Grunbaum
November 08, 2012
The Chinese government is talking about turning the home village of Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, into a theme park. And there’s nothing wrong with that, really. Read More
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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