Gao Xingjian comes from a centuries-old tradition of multitasking. The author of the novel "Soul Mountain" may be best known as the controversial winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000—the ...

Gao Xingjian is a celebrated Chinese-French painter, writer, and cultural figure. Best known for his poetry and prose, Gao has also maintained a dedicated painting practice. His art is consistently ...

Today, the commercial side of art is booming, auctions are taking the place of galleries, biennales abound, contemporary art is “in” around the world and artists everywhere seem to be racing to get ...

Xingjian, recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature, regards ideology of any shade with suspicion. A former laborer in the Chinese Cultural Revolution and a banned playwright in his native land, ...

The crowd in the ballroom was restive. Five hundred of Hong Kong's top writers, poets and newspaper columnists had been waiting for an hour to hear the first Chinese man in history to win the Nobel ...

For Gao Xingjian, the first Chinese writer to be honored with the Nobel Prize (in 2000), literature is supremely the realm of the individual. A true artist resists all political or ideological ...

Nobel Literature Laureate Gao Xingjian may be nearing his 74th birthday, but retirement could not be further from his mind. "I haven't had a holiday in 26 years," he told the BBC. "I'm always working.

The Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gao Xingjian presently has an exhibit of his ink-on-rice-paper paintings in Hong Kong. From The International Herald Tribune: Although he is better known around the ...

Lin Zhaohua's production of Gao Xingjian's "Of Mountains and Seas" is the first time in more than two decades that a mainland Chinese cast and crew have performed one of Mr. Gao's works. By Joyce Lau ...

Mo Yan, the magical realist writer who is also the vice-chairman of the state-run Chinese Writers’ Association, is China’s latest Nobel prize winner and the first to be publicly feted in the People’s ...