recent winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature Mo Yanreplied: I’m getting ready to buy a house in Beijing, a big house. But then I’ve been warned I won’t be able to get anything that ...

The nationalist blogger who attempted to sue Nobel-Prize winning author Mo Yan for 1.5 billion yuan for allegedly “defaming heroes and martyrs” in his fiction has had his lawsuit rejected by ...

Mo Yan's writing won China's first Nobel Prize in Literature, but is it patriotic enough for Xi Jinping's China? That's the question at the centre of a high-profile lawsuit that has driven a ...

Mo Yan, the winner of China’s first Nobel Prize for Literature, is being sued under a law that carries civil penalties for perceived slights against the country’s heroes and martyrs.