My favorite Chinese novelist Mo Yan wins the Nobel Prize in Literature -

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/mo-yan-a-nobel-winner-china-can-get-behind/2012/10/11/b9aec2ba-13a0-11e2-bf18-a8a596df4bee_blog.html Granta interview - includes all Q and A in Mandarin and English. Worth listening to if you enjoyed stories such as Red Sorghum. *

Michelle Obama in Oslo when Presdt Obama won Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 frame grab