Gao Xingjian

Gao Xingjian was born on 4 January 1940 in Ganzhou, in Jiangxi. A graduate in French in Beijing in 1962, he was sent during the Cultural Revolution to a re-education camp, for nearly six years according to Britannica, and burned a suitcase of manuscripts. A translator at the Foreign Languages Press, he afterwards saw his plays staged at the Beijing People's Art Theatre, then condemned or banned. He left China in 1987 and settled in Paris as a political refugee; he has become a French citizen. An ink painter, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000.

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• NovelSoul Mountain靈山Gao Xingjian · 1990Literature