Gao Xingjian

American  

[gou shing-jyahn] / ˈgaʊ ˈʃɪŋˈdʒyɑn /

noun

1. born 1940, French novelist and playwright, born in China: Nobel Prize 2000.

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Gao Xingjian British  

/ ɡaʊ ˈʃɪŋˈdʒjæn /

noun

1. born 1940, Chinese dramatist, novelist, and dissident, living in France from 1987; his works include the play Chezhan ( Bus Stop , 1983) and the novel Lingshan ( Soul Mountain , 1989): Nobel prize for literature 2000

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Example Sentences

Before the Chinese-born novelist and playwright Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 2000, the Chinese government led a semi-formal campaign, for nearly thirty years, to win the prize—an effort Julia Lovell chronicles in “The Politics of Cultural Capital: China’s Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature.”

From The New Yorker

Consider the case of the first native-born Nobel laureate for literature, Gao Xingjian, who won the prize in 2000.

From Washington Times

Nobel Literature Laureate Gao Xingjian may be nearing his 74th birthday, but retirement could not be further from his mind.

From BBC

Individuals are silenced on daily basis, and the pool of sensitive words grows by the hour: Liu Xiaobo, Gao Xingjian, Ai Weiwei, Wei Jingsheng, Liao Yiwu, Ma Jian, Mo Zhixu, Xiao Shu … The list goes on.

From The Guardian

Be firm in removing all comments which disgrace the Party and the government, defame cultural work, mention Nobel laureates Liu Xiaobo and Gao Xingjian and associated harmful material.

From New York Times