Gao Xingjian Quotes


If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.


Citations

Gao, Xingjian. Soul Mountain. Translated by Mabel Lee, HarperCollins, 2000.

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Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian
  • Born: January 4, 1940
  • Nationality: Chinese
  • Profession: Novelist

Gao Xingjian is a Chinese émigré novelist, playwright, and critic who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity." He is also a noted translator (particularly of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco), screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter. In 1998, Gao was granted French citizenship.