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Chinese author Mo Yan attends a press conference at a hotel in Gaomi, in eastern China's Shandong province on October 12, 2012. Chinese author Mo Yan, some of whose works have cast an unflattering eye on official policy, said after winning the literature Nobel that it was a writer's duty to spotlight political and social issues. Picture: AFP.

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