{"id":39846,"date":"2012-10-11T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=39846"},"modified":"2012-10-11T11:57:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T15:57:33","slug":"mo-yan-wins-nobel-prize-for-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/11\/mo-yan-wins-nobel-prize-for-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo Yan Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/12nobel-articleLarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/12nobel-articleLarge-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"12nobel-articleLarge\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-39855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/12nobel-articleLarge-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/12nobel-articleLarge.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/12\/books\/nobel-literature-prize.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mo Yan<\/a>\u2014whose pen name translates to <em>Do Not Speak<\/em>\u2014has won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature. A short-story writer and essayist who, says the Nobel citation, \u201cwith hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary,\u201d Mo Yan said he was overjoyed and scared by the honor.<\/p>\n<p>Continued the citation, \u201cThrough a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[tweetbutton]<\/p>\n<p>[facebook_ilike]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese author Mo Yan\u2014whose pen name translates to Do Not Speak\u2014has won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature. A short-story writer and essayist who, says the Nobel citation, \u201cwith hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary,\u201d Mo Yan said he was overjoyed and scared by the honor. 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