A writer novels, Mo has published dozens of short stories since 1981.
The Swedish Academy, which awards the prize, praised the "realization hallucinatory that unites folk legends, history and time modern".
57-year old Chinese national first wins Nobel literature. Gao Xingjian was honored with this assessment in 2000, but as a French citizen.
Mo is 109 winner of this prestigious award, won last year by Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer.
I censored some time in China and dissident sexual content of his works, Mo gains an amount of one million euros of this success.
"He has a writing style so unique. If you only read half a page of his work, you know immediately that it is Mo Yan, "said Peter Englund, president of the Swedish Academy.
