MCLC: Mueller says Mo Yan choice a 'catastrophe'

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: Martin Winter <dujuan99 at gmail.com>
Subject: Mueller says Mo Yan choice a 'catastrophe'
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Source: Associated Press via StarTribune (11/24/12):
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/180689071.html
 
 

Ex-Nobel-winner: Choice of Mo Yan "a catastrophe"
 
By Associated Press

STOCKHOLM - Herta Mueller, the 2009 winner of the Nobel Prize in
Literature, says the choice to give this year's award to Mo Yan is a
"catastrophe" that never should have happened, and accuses the Chinese
writer of praising the Asian country's tough censorship laws.

In an interview published in Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter on Saturday, the
Romanian-born author — whose struggle under Nicolae Ceausescu's
dictatorship has influenced most of her works — says she wanted to cry
when she learned of the 2012 laureate choice. She says she feels "it's a
catastrophe," and an "incredibly upsetting" choice.

Mo, the first Chinese writer to win the literature award, has been
criticized for compromising his artistic and intellectual independence by
being a Communist Party member and vice president of the official writers
association.