Mo Yan, seen as being close to Communist party, says he wishes peace prize-winner Liu Xiaobo achieves freedom soon
Addressing the Swedish Academy, the novelist says fiction is essential to a healthy society
Peruvian novelist admits to editing sections of his 1963 classic City and the Dogs after meeting General Franco's chief censor
Peruvian-born Mario Vargas Llosa said he thought it was a joke when he received an early morning call to say he had won
Odds on novelist, theorist and activist Ngugi wa Thiong'o tumble from 75-1 to 3-1