Chinese writer and 2012 Nobel Literature Prize winner Mo Yan has a lecture at Swedish Academy in Stockholm, capital of Sweden on Dec. 7, 2012. (Xinhua/Scanpix)
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"I will continue telling my stories": Mo Yan
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese writer Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, described himself as a storyteller in a lecture at the Swedish Academy on Friday afternoon.
It is telling stories that earned him the prize, the Nobel laureate said.
In the lecture titled "Storytellers," he talked about how he started story telling as a child and shared with the listeners his memory of his childhood and mother, "the person who is most on my mind at this moment." Full story
Chinese writer and 2012 Nobel Literature Prize winner Mo Yan receives a bunch of flowers after his lecture at Swedish Academy in Stockholm, capital of Sweden on Dec. 7, 2012. (Xinhua/Scanpix)
Chinese writer and 2012 Nobel Literature Prize winner Mo Yan has a lecture at Swedish Academy in Stockholm, capital of Sweden on Dec. 7, 2012. (Xinhua/Scanpix)
Chinese writer and 2012 Nobel Literature Prize winner Mo Yan has a lecture at Swedish Academy in Stockholm, capital of Sweden on Dec. 7, 2012. (Xinhua/Scanpix)
