Nobel laureate Mo Yan will teach in Taiwan
Famed mainland author to instruct university classes on writing and cross-strait literature
Nobel Laureate Mo Yan will teach Chinese writing and literature at a Taiwanese university beginning next year.
The National Taiwan Normal University announced on Thursday that Mo Yan, who is from the mainland, would lecture on literature and the cross-strait literary experience. Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for literature last year.
"Taiwanese writers are very good, and there is a good literary environment here," the university quoted him as saying on its website.
The university's president, Chang Kuo-en, said the university would soon set up a Chinese writing centre, and it hoped Mo Yan would play a key role in cultivating local talent, helping to promote Chinese literature around the world.
Mo Yan was expected to start teaching as soon as next summer, and would be responsible for a 20-credit course each semester, university officials said.
The writer already offered university lectures on the mainland, and so he was expected to stay in Taipei only for one to two weeks at a time, the officials said. They were still hammering out the schedule for classes.
