Chinese Author, Mo Yan, Awarded 2012 Nobel Prize In Literature

Chinese Author, Mo Yan, Awarded 2012 Nobel Prize In Literature "Mo Yan, the Chinese author, was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature this morning.

Mo Yan, the Nobel committee wrote, uses his 'hallucinatory realism' to merge 'folk tales, history and the contemporary.'

'Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition,' the committee explained in its citation."

I'm sad to say I've never even heard of him.