Biographie de Xingjian Gao
Gao Xingjian was born in 1940 in Jiangxi province in eastern China, and has lived in France since 1987. Gao is considered an artistic innovator in his native China, both in the visual arts and in literature. He is that rare multi-talented artist who excels as a novelist, playwright, essayist, director and painter. Two novels, the internationally best-selling Soul Mountain and One Mans Bible, are available in English from Harper Perennial. Mabel Lee, PhD, is Honorary Professor of Chinese at the University of Sydney and an authority on twentieth-century Chinese literature and history.