IHT Rendezvous: 'Garlands and Mud' for Nobel Laureate from China
 

The novelist Mo Yan was due to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature on Monday, a selection acidly assailed by fellow writers and poets in China. And while some applauded the award, Herta Müller, the 2009 Nobel laureate, called Mr. Mo's selection "a catastrophe" because of his failure to condemn state censorship in China.

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