Mo Yan of China wins Nobel Prize for literatu...

Mo Yan of China wins Nobel Prize for literatureBy the CNN Wire StaffOctober 11, 2012 -- Updated 1322 GMT (2122 HKT)http://culture.ifeng.com/huodong/special/2012nuobeierwenxuejiang/content-3/detail_2012_10/11/18190373_0.shtml

Mo Yan of China won the Nobel Prize in literature, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Thursday.STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Mo recently won China"s prestigious Mao Dun literary award

His novel "Frog" explored the traditional Chinese preference for boys over girls

Canadian Alice Munro and folk singer Bob Dylan had been mentioned as front-runners

Read a version of this story in Arabic.

(CNN) -- Mo Yan -- a beloved Chinese author who has captivated his countrymen by intertwining fantasy and gritty everyday life -- won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Mo the prestigious prize, saying the author"s "hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary."

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After the award was announced, Chinese national pride rippled across the Internet.

CNN"s Steven Jiang and Ben Brumfield contributed to this report.

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