Mia Couto, laureate of the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.NORMAN, OKLA., Nov. 1, 2013 – Mozambican author António Emílio Leite Couto (Mia Couto) has been chosen by a jury of nine int…
Neustadt Prize
November 1, 2013
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October 29, 2012Mo Yan. Photo by Jonathan Stalling.Shortly after China woke up to the news on October 11 that a Chinese national had won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, a storm of discussion raged throughout C…- October 19, 2012This week was full of exciting new discoveries and announcements. Below you'll find links to excerpts of 2012 Nobel Laureate Mo Yan's writing, a new short story from the archives of David Foster Walla…
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