Chinese author Mo Yan, who left school for a lifetime working in the fields at 12, was the first Chinese person to ever win the Nobel Prize in literature, praised By the Swedish Academy for the synthesis of "culture , history and contemporary" with "hallucinatory realism."
The win makes Mo Yan the first Chinese person to win the Nobel prize in its 111-year history: while Gao Xingjian won in 2000 and was born in China, he is now a French citizen; and although in 1938 Pearl Buck won the prize for "their rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and their biographical masterpieces," she is an American writer. Read more
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