2012 Literature Nobel for Mo Yan of China

Chinese author Mo Yan won Nobel Prize for literature. His real name is Guan Moye. The Swedish Academy recognized the writer as a one "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".

Some of his notable works:

• Red Sorghum
• The Republic of Wine
• Life and Death are Wearing Me Out

In 2011, the prize was given to Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer.