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Chinese writer Mo Yan won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature(诺贝尔文学奖)．He is the first Chinese to win the prize．
Mo Yan was born into a farmer's family in Shandong in 1955．He left school to work at the age of twelve，first on the farm，later in a factory．In 1 976 he joined the PLA and during this time he began to study writing．His first short story was published(出版)in 1981．He has written many famous books about his childhood and his home town．Many of his books were translated into English，French and many other languages．
Mo Yan's winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature，widely regarded as(被认为)a great encouragement for China's literature，is bringing more confidence to the nation's young authors．
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