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Press release
11 October 2012

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2012

Mo Yan

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”.

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