Herta Miller, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature, said that the awarding of the prize to writer Mo Yan this year was "a disaster that should never have happened" and accused the Chinese writer of supporting China's harsh censorship laws.
In an interview published in the Swedish daily "Dagens Njeter", Herta Miller, originally from Romania, whose works were mainly marked by the struggle against the Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, said that "she wanted to cry" when she heard who won the Nobel Prize for literature for 2012.
Mo Yan, the first Chinese writer to receive the award, has been criticized by many for what they say has jeopardized his artistic and intellectual work by being a member of the Communist Party and vice president of the Chinese Writers' Association.
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