
Chinese author and Nobel prize winner Mo Yan gives a speech at an event to promote his new book Grand Ceremony, which documents his trip to Sweden to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature and includes his speeches, interviews and diary entries, in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, Sept. 21, 2013. (Xinhua/Lu Peng)

Chinese author and Nobel prize winner Mo Yan gives a speech at an event to promote his new book Grand Ceremony, which documents his trip to Sweden to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature and includes his speeches, interviews and diary entries, in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, Sept. 21, 2013. (Xinhua/Lu Peng)

Chinese author and Nobel prize winner Mo Yan (L) answers questions at an event to promote his new book Grand Ceremony, which documents his trip to Sweden to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature and includes his speeches, interviews and diary entries, in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, Sept. 21, 2013. (Xinhua/Lu Peng)

Chinese author and Nobel prize winner Mo Yan (C) attends an event to promote his new book Grand Ceremony, which documents his trip to Sweden to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature and includes his speeches, interviews and diary entries, in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, Sept. 21, 2013. (Xinhua/Lu Peng)

Chinese author and Nobel prize winner Mo Yan signs his books for readers at an event to promote his new book Grand Ceremony, which documents his trip to Sweden to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature and includes his speeches, interviews and diary entries, in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, Sept. 21, 2013. (Xinhua/Lu Peng)