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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2000

"for an œuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama"
Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian
France
b. 1940
(in Ganzhou, China)
 
 
 
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