Chinese author Mo Yan has been awarded the 2012 NobelPrize for literature.A prolificauthor, Mo has published dozens of short stories, with his first work publishedin 1981.
The SwedishAcademy praised his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folktales, history and the contemporary".
The 57-year-oldis the first Chinese resident to win the prize. Chinese-born Gao Xingjian washonoured in 2000, but is a French citizen.
Mo is the 109threcipient of the prestigious prize, won last year by Swedish poet TomasTranstroemer.
Presented bythe Nobel Foundation, the award - only given to living writers - is worth 8million kronor (£741,000).
"He hassuch a unique way of writing. If you read half a page of Mo Yan you immediatelyrecognise it as him," said Peter Englund, head of the Academy.
He said Mo hadbeen told of the award, adding: "He was at home with his dad. He said hewas overjoyed and terrified."
Born Guan Moye,the author writes under the pen name Mo Yan, which means "don'tspeak" in Chinese.
He beganwriting while a soldier in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and receivedinternational fame in 1987 for Red Sorghum: A Novel of China.
Made into afilm which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1988, the novellawas a tale of the brutal violence in the eastern China countryside where hegrew up during the 1920s and 1930s.
Favouring towrite about China's past rather than contemporary issues, the settings for Mo'sworks range from the 1911 revolution, Japan's wartime invasion and Mao Zedong'sCultural Revolution.
"He has avery impressive oeuvre," Michel Hockx, Professor of Chinese at the Universityof London, said.
"He has alarge readership and he addresses the human condition in a way in which theNobel Committee likes to see."
Mo's otheracclaimed works include Republic of Wine, Life And Death Are Wearing Me Out andBig Breasts and Wide Hips.
The latter bookcaused controversy when it was published in 1995 for its sexual content anddepicting a class struggle contrary to the Chinese Communist Party line.
The author wasforced by the PLA to withdraw it from publication although it was pirated manytimes.
After it wastranslated into English a decade later, the book won him a nomination for theMan Asian Literary Prize.
Despite hissocial criticism Mo is seen in his homeland as one of the foremost contemporaryauthors, however critics have accused him of being too close to the CommunistParty.
"A writershould express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and theugliness of human nature," the author said in a speech at the FrankfurtBook Fair in 2009.
"Some maywant to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in theirrooms and use literature to voice their opinions."
His latestnovel, Frog, about China's "one child" population control policy, wonthe Mao Dun Literature Prize - one of his country's most prestigious literatureprizes - last year.
Mo and theother Nobel laureates for medicine, physics, chemistry and peace, will receivetheir prizes at formal ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo on 10 December - theanniversary of the death of prize creator Alfred Nobel in 1896.
Source: BBC
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