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Chinese writer Mo Yan wins Nobel literature prize

Mo Yan

Novelist Mo Yan, this year's Nobel Prize winner for literature, is practiced in the art of challenging the status quo without offending those who uphold it. Mo, whose popular, sprawling, bawdy tales bring to life rural China, is the first Chinese winner of the literature prize who is not a critic of the authoritarian government. And Thursday's announcement by the Swedish Academy brought an explosion of pride across Chinese social media.

 

José Saramago, Nobel Prize-Winning Writer, Dies

José Saramago, Nobel Prize-Winning Writer, Dies

The Portugese writer, 87, was known as much for his unfaltering Communist views as for his surrealist, sardonic novels.

 

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