Mo Yan, the Chinese writer, has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature for works of “hallucinatory realism” that merge “folk tales, history and the contemporary”.
Celebrated for his gritty tales of peasant life, Mr Mo is best-known in the west for Red Sorghum, a 1987 novel that was adapted into a film by Zhang Yimou. Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said Mr Mo offered an “inside” view of Chinese society and described him as “a mixture between Faulkner, Rabelais and Dickens”.
In great contrast to previous Chinese recipients of Nobel prizes, such as the dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, Mr Mo’s award was widely celebrated across China last night.
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