Mo Yan Expresses Hope for Release of 2010 Nobel Prize Winner

The Chinese author won the Nobel Prize for Literature this week. The 2010 Nobel Prize winner is a Chinese dissident who remains in jail

China's newly named Nobel laureate for literature expressed hope Friday that an imprisoned Chinese winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be freed, putting a dent in the rulingCommunist Party's attempts to burnish its credentials with the latest prize.

Mo Yan, the first Chinese writer to win the literature Nobel, made the comments about dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was awarded the Peace Prize while serving a prison sentence for opposing single-party rule, in response to a question at a news conference.