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Gao Xingjian (born January 4, 1940) 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 ingenuityWikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Gao Xingjian was documented, and when
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Ganzhouattested“Born in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, during wartime China in 1940 (Gao's original paternal ancestral home town is in Taizhou, Jiangsu with his maternal roots from Zhejiang), his family returned to Nanjing with him following the aftermath of World W…”source: Wikipedia: Gao Xingjian
1940year
Taizhou, Jiangsuattested“Born in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, during wartime China in 1940 (Gao's original paternal ancestral home town is in Taizhou, Jiangsu with his maternal roots from Zhejiang), his family returned to Nanjing with him following the aftermath of World W…”source: Wikipedia: Gao Xingjian
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Zhejiangattested“Born in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, during wartime China in 1940 (Gao's original paternal ancestral home town is in Taizhou, Jiangsu with his maternal roots from Zhejiang), his family returned to Nanjing with him following the aftermath of World W…”source: Wikipedia: Gao Xingjian
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Nanjingattested“Born in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, during wartime China in 1940 (Gao's original paternal ancestral home town is in Taizhou, Jiangsu with his maternal roots from Zhejiang), his family returned to Nanjing with him following the aftermath of World W…”source: Wikipedia: Gao Xingjian
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Places Gao Xingjian is documented in
Ganzhou1 presence · 1940
Nanjing1 presence · 1940
Taizhou, Jiangsu1 presence · 1940
Zhejiang1 presence · 1940
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Beijingmentioned“In 1975, he was allowed to go back to Beijing and became the group leader of French translation for the magazine China Reconstructs ().”source: Wikipedia: Gao Xingjian
1981 to 1987period
Beijingmentioned“Gao is known as a pioneer of absurdist drama in China, where Signal Alarm (《絕對信號》, 1982) and Bus Stop (《車站》, 1983) were produced during his term as resident playwright at the Beijing People's Art Theatre from 1981 to 1987.”source: Wikipedia: Gao Xingjian
1981 to 1987period
Chinamentioned“Gao is known as a pioneer of absurdist drama in China, where Signal Alarm (《絕對信號》, 1982) and Bus Stop (《車站》, 1983) were produced during his term as resident playwright at the Beijing People's Art Theatre from 1981 to 1987.”source: Wikipedia: Gao Xingjian
4 June 1989exact date
Chinamentioned“His 1989 political drama Fugitives (also translated as Exile), about three people who escape to a disused warehouse after the tanks roll into Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989, resulted in all his works being banned from performance in Chi…”source: Wikipedia: Gao Xingjian
4 June 1989exact date
Tiananmen Squarementioned“His 1989 political drama Fugitives (also translated as Exile), about three people who escape to a disused warehouse after the tanks roll into Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989, resulted in all his works being banned from performance in Chi…”source: Wikipedia: Gao Xingjian
1990year
Taipeimentioned“The part-memoir, part-novel, first published in Taipei in 1990 and in English in 2000 by HarperCollins Australia, mixes literary genres and utilizes shifting narrative voices.”source: Wikipedia: Gao Xingjian
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