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Gao Xingjian, Chinese novelist, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate
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Gao Xingjian
Chinese novelist, critic, playwright and Nobel laureate
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."…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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