Mo Yan at the 8th National Congress of China Writers’ Association

On the evening of October 11th, the Nobel Prize Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced in Stockholm that the Chinese writer Mo Yan, "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary," had won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012. Mo became the first Chinese national to win the award, which relieved a heavy load in Chinese people’s mind.  

Mo’s Nobel Prize is an honor and pride for Chinese literature, the international community’s recognition on Chinese contemporary writers’ creation and a happy ending of Chinese people’s complex for Nobel Prize for nearly a century.  

 As Zheng Yanying, a Chinese writer, said, it was indeed an encouraging piece of news because Mo Yan, a leading writer in China, is definitely the best representative of his peers in literature in reflecting the current spiritual situation of today’s Chinese. Besides, all his novels are vivid presentation familiar to every Chinese household with the essence of ancient Chinese culture. Mo’s victory in Nobel Prize will greatly motivate those young Chinese writers to endeavor with self-confidence for the altar of world literature.