Mo Yan of China Wins 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature

The 2012 Nobel prize for Literature has been awarded to the 57 year old Chinese author Mo Yan. The prize is worth about $1.2 million.

 According to Peter Englund, the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy administering the Nobel Prize, Mo Yan said that he was “overjoyed and scared on being informed of the award.

“Mo Yan” is the pen name of Guan Moye who was born in 1955 in a family of farmers belonging to the Shandong Province of the People’s Republic of China.

His novel “Red Sorghum” (1987) was made into a film which won the first prize at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1988.

The Swedish Academy praised the “hallucinatoric realism” of Mo Yan and said that it “merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.”

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