Gao Xingjian

Gao Xingjian

Gao Xingjian (高行健 in Chinese; born January 4, 1940) 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 (particularly of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco), screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter. Gao's drama is considered to be fundamentally absurdist in nature and avant-garde in his native China. Absolute Signal (1982) was a breakthrough in Chinese experimental theatre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gao Xingjian has received more than 403,073 page views. His biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). Gao Xingjian is the 335th most popular writer (down from 299th in 2019), the 69th most popular biography from China (down from 57th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Chinese Writer.

Gao Xingjian is most famous for his Nobel Prize winning novel, "Soul Mountain."