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1. News - China - LITERATURE

   Censorship has spurred writers, says Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan

   Posted Sep 16th 2013, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... The decision of the Nobel Committee to award the prize to Mo Yan - a long-time Communist Party member and vice-chairman of the party-aligned Chinese Writers' Association - also raised eyebrows ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1310577/censorship-has-spurred-writers-says-nobel-prize-winner-mo-yan
2. News - China - LITERATURE

   Mo Yan: from farm labourer to literary superstar

   Posted Sep 16th 2013, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Mo Yan, meaning "don't speak", as his pen name. He found fame with social commentaries such as Red Sorghum Clan , the story of a Shandong family facing decades of upheaval ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1310404/mo-yan-farm-labourer-literary-superstar
3. Lifestyle - Books - FICTION

   Book review: Pow!, by Mo Yan

   Posted Mar 24th 2013, 12:00am by GDN

   ... of nightmares. Who needs these hackneyed hallucinations? Certainly Mo Yan does, as without them he would have a bigger challenge: to tackle the gritty realism of his fictional world. The backstory ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1197110/book-review-pow-mo-yan
4. News - China

   Mo Yan’s Nobel lecture derided by dissidents

   Posted Dec 08th 2012, 07:48pm by Agence France-Presse

   ... prize, so it is not Mo Yan’s fault that the state media is praising him,” a Beijing intellectual, who only wanted to be identified by her surname Wang, said. “It is clear he is against ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1100781/mo-yans-nobel-lecture-derided-dissidents
5. Magazines - Post Magazine

   Made to be broken

   Posted Dec 16th 2012, 12:00am by Oliver Chou

   ... mainland writer Mo Yan’s Nobel prize a “catastrophe”, rewarding an author whom she claims “celebrates censorship” and is too close to the central government. She said that handing the prize ...

   http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1103731/made-be-broken
6. News - China - NOBEL PRIZES

   Mo Yan: chronicler of a turbulent Chinese century

   Posted Oct 11th 2012, 07:58pm by Agence France-Presse in Beijing

   ... Mo Yan has focused an unflinching eye on what he calls the darkness and ugliness of 20th-century Chinese society in a prolific writing career that on Thursday landed him the 2012 Nobel prize for literature. Mo Yan, one of China’s leading writers of the past half-century, became the first Chinese national and just the second Chinese-language writer to be awarded the coveted ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1058824/mo-yan-chronicler-turbulent-chinese-century
7. News - China - NOBEL PRIZE

   Media frenzy as Chinese author tipped for Nobel

   Posted Oct 09th 2012, 09:46pm by Raymond Li

   ... Critically acclaimed for his work and faulted for his tolerance of government censors, Chinese author Mo Yan has suddenly found himself at the centre of a media frenzy over his prospects of winning the Nobel Prize. The mainland media has gone into overdrive touting the possibly that Mo Yan could become the first Chinese national to win the prestigious litreature award after ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1057245/media-frenzy-chinese-author-touted-nobel
8. Comment - Blogs

   Mo Yan: how the world has reacted to the honour

   Posted Oct 12th 2012, 01:28pm by John Kennedy

   ... to the country's writers as the more reflective of Chinese lives their works are, the more possible they arise as a world literature.   "Colm Tóibín on Chinese Nobel winner Mo Yan" Video by Hedy ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1059490/mo-yan-how-world-has-reacted-honour
9. News - China

   China Digest, October 31, 2012

   Posted Oct 31st 2012, 12:00am by MANDY ZUO

   ... home inundated The former residence of Mo Yan , China's first Nobel laureate in literature, in Gaomi has become a popular tourist destination since he was given the award earlier ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1073506/china-digest-october-31-2012
10. News - China - LITERATURE

    Mo Yan shares some Nobel thoughts

    Posted Sep 16th 2013, 04:12am by Staff Reporter

    ... will find a vast and flat plateau where you can see the horizon, but you may feel empty. Hong Kong authors I know of include Xi Xi, the pen-name of poet Zhang Yan, Wong Bik-wan, Dung Kai-cheung, Lau ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1310645/mo-yan-shares-some-nobel-thoughts

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