Xingjian Gao
"Soul Mountain"
Year of Birth
1940
Nationality
CN / FR
Field of Knowledge
Novelist
Gao Xingjian (高行健 in Chinese – born January 4, 1940) is a Chinese émigré novelist, playwright, critic, painter, photographer, film director, translator, and critic, 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. In 1998, Gao was granted French citizenship.
Gao’s drama is considered to be fundamentally absurdist in nature and avant-garde in his native China. His prose works tend to be less celebrated in China but are highly regarded elsewhere in Europe and the West.
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52
Ranking History | 2018 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
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Global Ranking | 52 | 51 | 76 | — | — | — |
China Inside Ranking | — | 37 | 13 | — | — | — |
China Outside Ranking | — | 27 | 38 | — | — | — |