2012 Nobel Prize in Literature

2012 Nobel Prize in Literature
Mo Yan
"who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary."
Date
  • 11 October 2012 (2012-10-11) (announcement)
  • 10 December 2012
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First award1901
WebsiteOfficial website

The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Chinese writer Mo Yan (born 1955) "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary." He is the second Chinese author to win the prize after the exiled Gao Xingjian.

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