Gao Xingjian

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Gao Xingjian

Born:	January 4, 1940 (age 67) Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China
Occupation:	playwright, screenwriter, novelist, painter, director
Writing period:	1982-

Gao Xingjian (pron. IPA: [káu ɕĭŋ tɕiɛ̂n]; Chinese: 高行健; pinyin: Gāo Xíngjiàn; born January 4, 1940), is a Chinese émigré novelist, dramatist and critic, who received the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is also a noted translator, stage director and painter.

Born in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China, he is now a French citizen. In 1992 he was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. Although the general position by the Chinese media and government towards Gao is that of silence, the Yangcheng Evening News, a state-run newspaper, in 2001, criticized one of his works. A Chinese columnist called him an "awful writer," and said that the idea of him winning the Nobel Prize was "ludicrous."

Gao Xingjian's Swedish translator Göran Malmqvist, is a member of the Swedish Academy and was responsible for the translation to Swedish for Nobel Prize consideration. Ten days before the award decision was made public, Gao Xingjian changed his Swedish publisher (from Forum to Atlantis), but Göran Malmqvist has denied leaking information about the award[1].

[edit] Selected works

• 寒夜的星辰 ("Constellation in a Cold Night", 1979)
• 现代小说技巧初探 ("A Preliminary Examination of Modern Fictional Techniques", 1981)
• 绝对信号 (Signal Alarm, 1982)
• 车站 (Bus Stop, 1983)
• 野人 (Wild Men, "Savages", 1985)
• 有只鸽子叫红唇儿 ("Such a Pigeon called Red Lips", 1984) - a collection of novellas
• 彼岸 (The Other Shore: Plays by Gao Xingjian , 1986)
• 给我老爷买鱼竿 ("A Fishing Rod for my Grandpa", 1986) - a short story collection
• 灵山 (Soul Mountain, 1990)
• 没有主义 (Without -isms, "No Ideology", 1995)
• 一个人的圣经 (One Man's Bible, 1998)

[edit] Works of Gao Xingjian in English

• • Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather, short stories, Flamingo, London, 2004, ISBN 0-00-717038-6
  • Soul Mountain, novel, Flamingo, London, 2001, ISBN 0-00-711923-2
  • One Man's Bible, novel, Flamingo, ISBN 0-06-621132-8
  • The Other Shore, plays, Chinese University Press, ISBN 962-201-862-9

[edit] Literature

• Trees on the Mountain: an Anthology of New Chinese Writing by Stephen C Soong and John min Ford. - Hong Kong: The Chinese U.P., copilot 1984.
• Gao Xingjian, le moderniste // La Chine aujourd'hui NO 41, September 1986.
• World Literature with Chinese Characteristics: On A Novel by Gao Xingjian by Torbjoern Lodén, // Stockholm journal of East Asian Studies 4, 1993.
• Chinese Writing and of exiles by Gregory B. Lee - Center of East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago, 1993.
• Gao Xingjian, the Voice of the Individual // Stockholm Journal of East Asian Studies, 6, 1995.
• Without Politics: Gao Xingjian on Literary Creation by Mabel Lee // Stockholm journal OF East Asian Studies 6, 1995.
• Gao Xingjian and "Soul Mountain: Ambivalent Storytelling, Robert Nagle, Houston, Texas, 2002.
• Pronouns as Protagonists: Gao Xingjian's Lingshan as Autobiography by Mabel Lee// Colloquium of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics at the University of Sydney. Draft Paper, 3-4 Oct. 1996.
• Personal Freedom in Twentieth Century China: Reclaiming the Self in Yang Lian's Yi and Gao Xingjian's Lingshan by Mabel Lee // History, Literature and Society. - Sydney: Sydney Studies in Society and Culture 15, 1996.
• Outer one plus près you réel: dialogues sur l'écriture 1994-1997, entretiens avec Denis Bourgeois /trad. par Noeel et Liliane Dutrait. - La route of d'Aigues: l'Aube, 1997.
• Gao Xingjian's Lingshan/Soul Mountain: Modernism and the Chinese Writer by Mabel Lee, // Heat 4, 1997.
• Gao Xingjian, le peintre de l'âme by Robert Calvet, // Brèves No 56, more hiver 1999.
• Towards A Modern Zen Theatre: Gao Xingian and Chinese Theatre Experimentalism. Henry Y.H. Zhao, - London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 2000.