Tag: Nobel Prize

Ai Weiwei & Mo Yan on Publicity and Responsibility

In an interview and a recent speech, respectively, artist Ai Weiwei and Nobel-winning author Mo Yan expressed sharply different attitudes towards public exposure and social and political responsibility. From Bernhard Zand, talking to Ai Weiwei for Spiegel Online: SPIEGEL: How have you been lately? Ai: In general I am fine; my situation is as good as anybody else’s. It is still difficult but

May 10, 2013 1:35 PM

Liu Xia: “Tell Everybody I’m Not Free”

Liu Xia, the wife of jailed Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo, was seen in public on Tuesday for the first time in two-

April 23, 2013 6:53 AM

Jailed Nobel Winner’s Brother-in-Law Arrested

The Associated Press’ Isolda Morillo reports that the brother of Liu Xiaobo’s wife, Liu Xia, was arrested ear

March 29, 2013 11:51 AM

Nobel Laureate Mo Yan: “I Am Guilty”

In his first interview since receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in December, Mo Yan talks to Der Spiegel’s Be

February 27, 2013 8:19 PM

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