1、走近中国作家莫言 The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Mo Yan“who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales， history and the contemporary”. Through a mixture of fantasy and reality， historical and social perspectives， Mo Yan has created a world which i
2、s reminiscent of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez， at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition. Chinese writer Mo Yan was named the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature on O
3、ct.11. If past recent winners are any indication， Mo Yan’s previously published books will now find plenty of new readers. In the year since Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer won the 2011 Nobel Prize for literature， his 2006 book， The Great Enigma： New Collected
4、Poems， sold about 17，000 copies in the U.S. in all formats. Until the prize was announced， the book had sold about 3，000 copies.4 “It’s a really great performance for a book of poetry，” said Jeffrey Yang， an editor at New Directions Publishing Co. who acquired
5、 the book. “The works of Peruvian-born novelist Mario Vargas Llosa also showed ‘a marked bump’ after Mr Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature，” said James Meader， a spokesman for Picador， a paperback house owned by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbr
6、inck GmbH’s Macmillan publishing arm. In the month directly following the prize announcement， Picador shipped more than 100，000 copies of the 10 books written by Mr. Vargas Llosa that it had in print， including one of his most popular titles， The Feast of the
7、Goat. This was several times more than Picador had shipped during the entire previous year. Farrar， Straus and Giroux， a sister imprint that originally published the hardcover editions， subsequently acquired the digital rights and issued the works as e-books i
8、n March 2011. “What happens after you have a winner is that a lot of scrambling takes places，” said Mr Meader. “4We made sure we had enough books out there. And we put a se
