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Mo Yan: China's reluctant Nobel laureate

On 11 October, when the Nobel Committee announced that they had decided to award this year's Nobel Prize for Literature to Mo Yan, the Chinese writer was in hiding in his hometown Gaomi, of Shandong province, some 600km (370 miles) from Beijing.

 

Germany's Mueller wins 2009 Nobel literature prize

Germany's Mueller wins 2009 Nobel literature prize

German Herta Mueller, a Romanian-born writer who produced tales of the disenfranchised and fought for free speech, won the 2009 Nobel prize for literature Thursday.

 

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