One Man's Bible
by Gao Xingjian

List Price: $26.95
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 0066211328
Publisher: HarperCollins

Gao Xingjian (whose name is pronounced gow shing-jen) is the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in 1940 in Jiangxi province in eastern China, he studied in state schools, earned a university degree in French in Beijing, and embarked on a life of letters. In 1987 he became a voluntary exile and settled in Paris, where two years later he completed his first novel, Soul Mountain. In 1992 he was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. In addition to writing fiction and criticism, Gao is also a noted playwright and painter. A collection of his paintings has been published under the title Return to Painting.

top of the page