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LONDON, June 12-- Chinese writer and Nobel laureate Mo Yan was awarded Wednesday the Honorary Fellowship by Regent's Park College, University of Oxford, in recognition of his contribution to Chinese and world literature. The college principal Robert Ellis presented the gown and stole to Mo at the ceremony. They unveiled together a new international writing center named after Mo. Two Chinese contemporary writers Su Tong and Yu Hua were invited to work as Writers in Residence for the international writing center. Mo, renowned for his imaginative and humanistic fiction, was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is also a professor at Beijing Normal University. He expressed his gratefulness to the Oxford college and recalled his love to literature since his childhood. He also told the audience in his speech that he was greatly influenced by William Shakespeare's masterpieces and would focus on play writing in the following years. Mo told Xinhua he expects the international writing center in Oxford will further enhance China-UK literature cooperation and talent exchange. Ellis told Xinhua that as the college has strengthened its relationships with Beijing Normal University in the last few years, "it is the very right thing to do for somebody in the university not only to honor Mo Yan's great achievements as writer, but also we want to recognize him and welcome him into our college community. " | 
