Chinese author Mo Yan&mdash;whose pen name translates to Do Not Speak&mdash;has won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature. A short-story writer and essayist who, says the Nobel citation, &ldquo;with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary,&rdquo; Mo Yan said he was overjoyed and scared by the honor. Continued the citation, &ldquo;Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garc&iacute;a M&aacute;rquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition.&rdquo;