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Overview: NOBEL Prize of Literature GAO XINGJIAN (whose name is pronounced gow shing-jen) is a playwright and celebrated painter as well as a fiction writer and critic. Born in 1940 in Jiangxi province in eastern China, he studied in state schools, earned a university degree in French in Beijing, and embarked on a life of letters. Choosing exile in 1987, he settled in Paris, where he completed Soul Mountain two years later. In 1992 he was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He is the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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In 1983, Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death.But six weeks later, a second examination revealed there was no cancer--he had won "a second reprieve from death." Faced with a repressive cultural environment and th
Overview: NOBEL Prize of Literature GAO XINGJIAN (whose name is pronounced gow shing-jen) is a playwright and celebrated painter as well as a fiction writer and critic. Born in 1940 in Jiangxi province in eastern China, he studied in state schools, earned a university degree in French in Beijing, an
. A national bestseller. Author, Gao Xingjian. Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. Perennial, an Imprint of Harper Collins publishers. First Perennial edition published 2001. Gao Xingjian was born on 4 January 1940 in war torn China soon after the beginning of the Japanese invasion. He complet
Overview: NOBEL Prize of Literature GAO XINGJIAN (whose name is pronounced gow shing-jen) is a playwright and celebrated painter as well as a fiction writer and critic. Born in 1940 in Jiangxi province in eastern China, he studied in state schools, earned a university degree in French in Beijing, an