The Washington Post, October 13th, 2000
Gao Xingjian, a Chinese playwright and novelist living in exile, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature yesterday. In its announcement, the Swedish Academy praised Gao, 60, by saying, "In the writing of Gao Xingjian literature is born anew from the struggle of the individual to survive the history of the masses. He is a perspicacious skeptic who makes no claim to be able to explain the world. He asserts that he has found freedom only in writing." "For me writing is a matter of survival," Gao told the Associated Press in an interview from his home in France. Those familiar with Gao's work s...
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