Novelist Gao Xingjian has made "the list."
I have been compiling a post college graduation reading list for all the books I have discovered in the past five years.
Soul Mountain and One Man's Bible are two of his novels that I plan to read.
The 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature novelist, dramatist, literary critic, poet, painter and stage and film director has a fascinating life story. Born in Ganzhou China in the 1940s, he was sent to work in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution.
He has been recognized by the Swedish Academy for his "universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity."
I'm hoping that means he translates well into English.
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