Amazon river permanent source of inspiration for Chinese writer, Nobel Laureate

For Nobel literature prize winner Mo Yan, rivers represent something of a lifelong obsession

The Amazon River, which flows through Peru, Colombia and Brazil, has been a permanent source of inspiration for China's Nobel literature prize winner Mo Yan.

The river is present throughout his work, Mo Yan said recently in a speech at a conference hosted by the Diego Portales University here in Santiago, with the theme of "Rivers and my literature".