Does a Nobel Prize make Korea a cultural powerhouse ... or an Asian writer as it had been 12 years since the prize came to an ...

Established in 2009 by the French Embassy in China and French-speaking Chinese intellectuals, including Dong Qiang, author, ...

International Writing Program Director Christopher Merrill says several IWP alum were considered for this year’s prize. Kang began ... and Chinese novelist Mo Yan, a 2004 resident, won the ...

Past Asian winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature include India’s Rabindranath Tagore, Japan’s Yasunari Kawabata and Kenzaburo Oe, China’s Gao Xingjian and Mo Yan, and Japanese-born ...

This is Korea’s second Nobel Prize win, following the late President Kim Dae-jung’s Peace Prize in 2000, and the first for an Asian author since China’s Mo Yan in 2012. The academy praised ...

Supported by intellectuals, including Nobel laureates in literature Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio and Mo Yan, the prize acknowledges the crucial role of translators as conveyors of words ...

We had to watch with envy when the Nobel Prize went to Japanese writers Yasunari Kawabata in 1968 and Kenzaburo Oe in 1994 and most recently Mo Yan of China in 2012. Han completed the East Asian ...

the author and Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mo Yan was accused of “beautifying” Japanese soldiers and being unpatriotic in his works by a nationalist blogger, who controversially sued the ...

On a Tuesday morning in September, a 10-year-old boy was approaching the gates of a Japanese school in Shenzhen in southern China, when a stranger walked up and stabbed him. He died of his injuries.

On a Tuesday morning in September, a 10-year-old boy was approaching the gates of a Japanese school in Shenzhen in southern China, when a stranger walked up and stabbed him. He died of his injuries.