Mo Yan's writing won China's first Nobel Prize in Literature, but is it patriotic enough for Xi Jinping's China? That's the question at the centre of a high-profile lawsuit that has driven a ...

Mo Yan, trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt . Univ. of Oklahoma, $24.95 (424p) ISBN 978-0-8061-4339-2 In an Author's Note, the Nobel Prize winner observes that he "had trouble" answering ...

The Nobel Prize in Literature has honoured predominantly ... The last Chinese author to win was Mo Yan in 2012. One explanation for this under-representation could be the judges' lack of ...

In 2024, for the first time, an Asian woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature. She is Han Kang, South Korean, born in 1970, daughter of the writer Han Seung-won. The Swedish Academy awarded her the ...