biography
pronunciation:
[gow, shingjian]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1940– )
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| biography:
| Novelist and playwright, born in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province, E China. He studied French at the Department of Foreign Languages, Beijing (1962), and during the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) he was sent to a re-education camp. His book of collected plays, The Other Shore (1986), was banned in China, and the next year he settled in Paris as a political refugee, later taking French citizenship. In 2000 he became the first Chinese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature: the citation stated that the award was for work ‘of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama’. |
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