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Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian is a Chinese émigré and later French naturalized novelist, playwright, critic, painter, photographer, film director, and translator who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity." He is also a noted translator, screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.
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culture · Chinese novelist, critic, playwright and Nobel laureate · writer · painter · translator · novelist · playwright · literary critic · film director · screenwriter · also Gao Xingjian, Xingjian Gao, Hành Kiện Cao, Hsing-chien Kao, Xingjian
Born 4 January 1940 · Q18143
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2026· 3 entries
“Even today, those attacks continue.”
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The New York Times: Gao Xingjian
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2022· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (2022).
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2021· 1 entry
JSTOR Daily: Snow in August: Play by Gao Xingjian
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2020· 1 entry
Professor Gao celebrated his 10th year as an NTNU chair professor, commemorating this milestone by generously donating various manuscripts and pertinent books to the university
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2017· 1 entry
Where his ink wash painting "The Thinker" was presented, and the "Gao Xingjian Week" in 2019, which introduced courses such as "The Literature and Art of Gao Xingjian" and "Studies on Plays of Gao Xingjian", curses curre
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2014· 1 entry
NTNU, in conjunction with the National Palace Museum, co-presented the Taiwanese premiere of the cinematic poem "Requiem for Beauty," alongside the publication of the corresponding art book
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2012· 2 entries
Where he has been teaching courses for several years
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The university arranged the "Encounter Gao Xingjian at NTNU - Commemorating the Visit of Nobel Laureate in Literature Gao Xingjian
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2011· 1 entry
President Chang Kuo-En traveled to France to extend an invitation, resulting in Mr
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2008· 1 entry
Accepted President Gou Yih-shun's invitation to become an honorary chair professor at the university
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Provence - Aix-Marseille I (2001).
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2000· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for an œuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (2000).
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Expressing his view of writing, in his 2000 Nobel prize acceptance speech, Gao stated:
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Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity
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1992· 1 entry
Was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government
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1990· 1 entry
And in English in 2000 by HarperCollins Australia, mixes literary genres and utilizes shifting narrative voices
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1987· 2 entries
And his plays from The Other Shore onward increasingly centered on universal (rather than Chinese) concerns, but his 1989 play Exile angered both the government for its depiction of China and the overseas democracy movem
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That as a writer he could be placed at the meeting point between Western and Eastern cultures
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1986· 2 entries
Gao was misdiagnosed with lung cancer, and he began a 10-month trek along the Yangtze, which resulted in his novel Soul Mountain (《靈山》)
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His play The Other Shore was banned, and since then none of his other plays have been performed on the mainland
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1983· 2 entries
“Then I was censored by others. That”
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That the work gave some coherence to Chinese writers' attempts to understand Western art and literature after World War I, but "reads more like a loose collection of jottings and reflections [
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1982· 1 entry
By which point several established writers had applauded it
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1981· 1 entry
And in 1982 he wrote his first play, Absolute Signal
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1980· 1 entry
Gao became a screenwriter and playwright for the Beijing People's Art Theatre
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1977· 1 entry
Gao worked for the Committee of Foreign Relationship, Chinese Association of Writers
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1975· 1 entry
Was allowed to go back to Beijing and became the group leader of French translation for the magazine China Reconstructs (《中國建設》)
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1962· 1 entry
Gao graduated from the Department of French, BFSU, and then he worked for the Chinese International Bookstore (中國國際書店)
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1957· 1 entry
Gao graduated, and, following his mother's advice, chose Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) instead of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, although he was thought to be talented in art
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1952· 1 entry
Gao entered the Nanjing Number 10 Middle School (later renamed Jinling High School) which was the Middle School attached to Nanjing University
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1940· 2 entries
Born 1940-01-04.
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(Gao's original paternal ancestral home town is in Taizhou, Jiangsu with his maternal roots from Zhejiang), his family returned to Nanjing with him following the aftermath of World War II
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