Mo Yan es el Premio Nobel de Literatura 2012

STOCKHOLM — Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, a cause of pride for a government that had disowned the only previous Chinese winner of the award, an exiled critic. National television broke into its newscast to announce the prize — exceptional for the tightly scripted broadcast that usually focuses on the doings of Chinese leaders. The Swedish Academy, which selects the winners of the prestigious award, praised Mo's "hallucinatory realism" saying it "merges folk tales, history and the contemporary." Peter Englund, the academy's permanent secretary, said the academy had contacted Mo, 57,before the announcement.The 2012 Nobel Prize for literature has been awarded to Chinese writer Mo Yan. The Swedish Academy in Stockholm praised Mo's "hallucinatoric realism" as it announced the prize on October 11. "The Nobel Prize in literature for 2012 is awarded to the Chinese writer Mo Yan, who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history, and the contemporary," Peter Englund, the academy's permanent secretary, said. Englund said the academy had contacted Mo before the announcement and that Mo said he was "overjoyed Celebrated author Mo Yan has become the first Chinese national to win the Nobel Prize for literature. Announced by the Nobel committee in Sweden on Thursday, Yan was chosen as the 2012 recipient for works with qualities of "hallucinatory realism" that mixes folk tales, history and the contemporary. "Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition," the Swedish Academy said. Mo Yan whose real name is Guan Moye was born in 1955. He has published novels, short stories and essays on various topics, and despite his social criticism is seen in his homeland as one of the foremost contemporary authors, the Nobel committee noted.