Gao Xingjian

b. 1940

2 standalone books

Gao Xingjian (born January 4, 1940) is a Chinese novelist, playwright, painter, photographer, film director, and translator. He was born in Ganzhou, Jiangxi. In the late 1980s, he left China and later became a French citizen. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000 for "an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity." He is known for translating the works of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco, and his literary style, particularly his use of stream-of-consciousness and themes of exile, has influenced other writers.

Born

1940