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A new book by Nobel laureate Mo Yan hit the Chinese market on Wednesday amid "Mo Mania", which has swept the country since the writer was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Oct 11.
Promoting her new "adult" novel, J.K. Rowling finds it amusing that the most famous "adult" fiction of the moment is the erotic trilogy "50 Shades of Grey".
In just two years, Sun Yi-sheng has been a chemistry major, factory guard, pesticide chemist and writer, but the 26-year-old says writing is his calling.
A US author examines China's trade with his homeland from the time of colonial America. Kelly Chung Dawson reports in New York.
After winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mo Yan will soon have the honor of having tens of millions of Chinese high school students exposed to his work in textbooks.
Singaporean writer and poet Felix Cheong says he was elated upon hearing Mo Yan had won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.
Much has been written about China's so-called Nobel complex - a fixation on the country's failure to produce a laureate in literature.
Mo Yan's Noble Prize for Literature on Thursday might ignite an explosion of global interest in Chinese literature and lead to more titles translated into English.
Mo Yan's works have had mixed success on the big screen, and his brush with cinematic fame started with a bang.
Mo Yan has been at the forefront of the exploration and creation of Chinese literature over his more than 30 years of writing.
Writer praised for 'hallucinatory realism' wins recognition from the Swedish Academy, Liu Wei reports.
Mo Yan's brush with cinematic fire started with a bang.
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