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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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