2012 Event The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Chinese author Mo Yan, famous for the hallucinatory realism writing style 1990 Death Irmtraud Morgner, writer, freelance author, used magical realism to address the role of gender in East German society, dies of cancer in Berlin, East Germany 1933 Birthday Irmtraud Morgner, born in Chemnitz, Germany, writer, freelance author, used magical realism to address the role of gender in East German society 1924 Birthday Jose Donoso, born in Chile, writer, born Jose Donoso Yanez, part of Latin American literary boom, Magical Realism literary movement, wrote Coronacion, El lugar sin limites (The Place Without Limits) 1912 Birthday Johan Daisne, Herman Thiery, Belgian writer, magic realism 1900 Birthday [Albert] Carel Willink, Dutch painter, magic realism 1809 Birthday Nikolai Gogol, father of 19th-century Russian realism, Dead Souls
