Gao Xingjian
| Titles: | Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather, One Man's Bible |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Australian Literary Management |
Chinese playwright, novelist and artist Gao Xingjian became a critic of the Communist regime as a young man. He fled Beijing and has lived for many years in France where his first novel, Soul Mountain, was first published and became a bestseller, going into five editions.
In 2000 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Mabel Lee's English translation of Soul Mountain has been a success worldwide.
Gao's last novel One Man’s Bible focuses the political horrors of the
twentieth century through the lens of desire and memory.
