Whether or not I deserved the Nobel Prize, I already received it, and now it’s time to get back to my writing desk and produce a good work. I hear that the 2013 list of Nobel Prize nominees has been finalized. I hope that once the new laureate is announced, no one will pay attention [...]
Chinese author Mo Yan shot to international fame when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 2012, and his success was wildly celebrated in his home country. No doubt many harbor hopes that Mo Yan can inspire a new generation of young writers in China. Before they can be inspired by Mo Yan, [...]
[The following is an op-ed, and does not necessarily express the opinions of the editors.] The controversy surrounding Mo Yan’s Nobel Prize in Literature quieted somewhat in the last couple of months as more pressing news of China’s once-in-a-decade leadership transition took precedence. However, as soon as the new laureate landed in Stockholm earlier last [...]
Whatever Mo Yan is up to right now, he is likely doing with knowing chuckle. The toast of China just a couple of weeks ago in the wake of his historic Nobel Prize in Literature, he has been all but forgotten in the frenzied run-up to the 18th National Party Congress, which will begin on Thursday [...]
[Note: The following is a Tea Leaf Nation op-ed, and does not necessarily represent the opinions of the editors, or of the U.S. government.] “We need a Nobel Prize for Literature. The Nobel is consolation. It’s proof. It’s a sort of affirmation. Even more, it’s the starting point for a new beginning.” Are these the histrionics of a [...]
The Royal Academy of Sciences has announced that Chinese author Guan Moye, who uses the pen name Mo Yan (莫言, which literally means “don’t speak”), has won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature. Chinese media–mainstream and otherwise–have been saturated with the news since the October 11 announcement. On Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, the country’s intelligentsia [...]
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