GAOMI, China: China’s Nobel literature prizewinner Mo Yan hit back at his dissident critics on Friday, while defending some of the authoritarian literary views of former revolutionary leader Mao Zedong.
“I believe a lot of my critics haven’t read my books, if they read my books they would realise they were written under great pressure and exposed me to great risks,” Mo Yan told reporters a day after winning the 2012 Nobel Prize for literature.
“I think some of Mao Zedong’s remarks on art were reasonable, such as his views on the relation between art and life,” he said.
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