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This picture taken on March 25, 2012, shows Chinese writer Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Literature Prize winner, attending a novel competition in Haikou, in south China’s Hainan province. The Swedish Academy announced on October 11, 2012 that Chinese author Mo Yan won the Nobel Literature Prize “with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary” . CHINA OUT AFP PHOTOSTR/AFP/GettyImages