AdvertisementMo Yan's 'Hallucinatory Realism' Wins Lit NobelOctober 11, 2012facebookEmailChinese writer Mo Yan is the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in literature. Mo Yan is a pen name that means "don't speak" — a name he adopted because his parents, who raised him during the Cultural Revolution, warned him to hold his tongue. (AFP/Getty Images)