Mo Yan, a novelist best known for his earthy tales of rural life in China, sparked national pride when he became the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. A top ...

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 ...

Yan Rachinsky is the chairman of Memorial. (You will also see “Jan Raczynski,” etc.) As he has disclosed, the Kremlin ordered the people of Memorial not to accept the Nobel Peace Prize.

TAIPEI--His writing won China’s first Nobel Prize for Literature ... but it is unusual for a figure as prominent as Mo Yan to be targeted. Patriotic blogger Wu Wanzheng, who goes by “Truth ...