In Der Spiegel Bernhard Zand has what they're touting as Sandalwood Death-author Mo Yan's first interview "since receiving the Nobel Prize in literature", Nobel Laureate Mo Yan: 'I Am Guilty'.
The Germans are ahead of the English-speaking world in translating Mo, so the book under discussion is not yet available in English, but they also get a lot into his politics and he responds to some of the specifics leveled against him.
Interesting, too, that he claims:
The Germans are ahead of the English-speaking world in translating Mo, so the book under discussion is not yet available in English, but they also get a lot into his politics and he responds to some of the specifics leveled against him.
Interesting, too, that he claims:
I don't like to give political statements. I am a fast writer. But I think thoroughly. When I speak publicly, I immediately ask myself if I have made myself clear. My political views are quite clear though. One only has to read my books.