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The Swedish Academy, which selects the winners of the prestigious award, today praised Mo's "hallucinatoric realism" saying it "merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".
European authors had won four of the past five awards, with last year's prize going to Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer.
As with the other Nobel Prizes, the prize is worth 8 million kronor, or about USD 1.2 million.
