Chinese writer Mo Yan laughs as he holds a cigarette during the International Strindberg Conference at Peking University in Beijing October 19, 2005. Mo Yan won the 2012 Nobel prize for literature on October 11, 2012 for works which combine “hallucinatory realism” with folk tales, history and contemporary life grounded in his native land. Picture taken October 19, 2005. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA – Tags: SOCIETY) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA
