China Nobel winner Mo Yan 'guilty' but defiant
- Published: 28 Feb 2013 at 14.43
- Online news: Asia
Nobel literature laureate Mo Yan has hit back at critics who accused him of being too close to China's government, saying in a newspaper interview he does not write on behalf of the ruling Communist party.
The 2012 Nobel Literature Prize laureate, Mo Yan of China speaks at the Royal Swedish Academy in Stockholm on December 7, 2012. Mo Yan has hit back at critics who accused him of being too close to China's government, saying in a newspaper interview he does not write on behalf of the ruling Communist party.
Yan scooped the Nobel in October for what judges called his "hallucinatory realism" and has won praise from literary critics, but is also fiercely attacked by Chinese dissidents who brand him a Communist stooge.
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