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China’s Mo Yan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Posted October 11th, 2012 at 7:45 am (UTC-5)
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Chinese author Mo Yan has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Royal Swedish Academy in Stockholm announced the winner of the prestigious prize on Thursday. In describing his work, the Nobel committee said Mo merges folk tales, history and the contemporary “with hallucinatory realism.” Mo is seen as one of China’s foremost contemporary […]

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2011 Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded To Swedish Poet

Posted October 6th, 2011 at 7:30 am (UTC-5)
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature to 80-year-old Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer. The jury said Thursday that Transtromer was honored “because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality.” Transtromer will receive $1.5 million for winning the Literature Prize, the fourth of this […]

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