"It is great honor for us to associate him with us and we hope he too will gain from the association with our college," the principal added.

He noted that Regent's Park College, located at the center of Oxford, had historical ties with China and the newly inaugurated Mo Yan International Writing Center is "a very exciting development."

"We hope to strengthen our collaboration with Beijing Normal University and hope it will nurture new writers and young people will be stimulated," he said.

Ellis believes the interchange between Oxford and Chinese universities will continue to bring advantages to both sides.

"One of the advantages of the relationships is the way to deepen the understandings between people from different cultures and different economical and political systems. That is also gained through conversations we have because of the quality writing of Mo Yan. So, to read his books, the Red Sorghum Clan, for instance, is for reader from the West to understand China in a new way," he said.

The college also unveiled a portrait of Mo Yan, which was commissioned to join those of other honorary fellows in the college lecture room.

Mo was born in 1955 and grew up in Gaomi in east China's Shandong Province. He is the first Chinese national to win the Nobel literature award.

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