The Nobel Prize in Literature to be announced on Thursday has mainly gone to Western writers over the years, though this year ...

Mo Yan, trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt. Viking, $23.50 (368p) ISBN 978-0-670-84402-9 In the way that Chinese landscape painting reshapes the viewer's perspective by offering not one ...

Writer Mo Yan Wins Nobel Prize, Spurs Mixed Reaction from Fellow Chinese The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to celebrated Chinese writer Mo Yan, whose books include "Red Sorghum" and "The ...

Chinese writer Mo Yan summed it up well when he said: “When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal.

Next week's Nobel Prize announcements will crown achievements that made the world a better place, a glimmer of optimism amid ...

China erupted in something close to a national celebration for the writer Mo Yan, just two years after the government condemned a Nobel Peace Prize for the dissident Liu Xiaobo. The winner of the ...

I once had the honor of interviewing the Chilean writer, and she recounted how she started working ... worst book hangover of all time with this read.” Published in 1986 by Mo Yan (author Guan Moye’s ...

Next week's Nobel Prize announcements will crown achievements that made the world a better place, a glimmer of optimism amid ...

Hindi naman siya ‘[writer] lang,’ kasi kuntento dapat ako dun eh kasi ... Iilawan ka nun sa lahat ng dadaan mo, at iilawan yan ng ibang tao.” [I found myself in ‘Firefly.’ We are all fireflies. We ...

The Nobel Prize in Literature has honoured predominantly Western writers since it was first awarded in 1901, but the Swedish ...