Chinese writer and winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature Mo Yan speaks at Stockholm University in Stockholm, capital of Sweden on Dec 9, 2012.
Mo Yan, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, arrives at the Grand Hotel where he will stay in Stockholm, capital of Sweden on Dec 6, 2012.
China's Nobel literature winner Mo Yan on Thursday called for more attention on Chinese literature from readers around the world, and said he would produce more quality works in the future.
Mo Yan has explained that the drive for his writing career comes from the strong impulse he feels to tell the stories looming in his mind.
The night before the Nobel Laureate picked up the medal from the King, Mo Yan spoke to young Swedish students in a cinema.Mo Yan pays homage to Chinese writers
A Chinese writer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature several days ago.
Mo Yan, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, arrives at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, as he is to leave for Sweden to accept the award, Dec 5, 2012.
Pow! is a novel written by Mo Yan and Howard Goldblatt (Jan 15, 2013).
Nobel Literature Laureate Mo Yan said he hopes other Chinese writers and artists can receive more attention now.
Few Chinese authors have had the chance to compete for the Nobel Prize for Literature because of the lack of nominations from China, says Kjell Espmark, a Nobel Committee member.
Mo Yan, China's first Nobel literature laureate, could see his income exceed 200 million yuan ($32 million) this year.
Everyone wonders what kind of soil nurtured writer Mo Yan. The agrarian hometown of China's first Nobel laureate in literature cultivated his writing.