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 | Gao Xingjian: Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born novelist and playwright speaks about his 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature in Bagnolet, France, October 12, 2000. The dissident writer who left China in 1987, is the first non-European literature laureate in six years. (Reuters) click to open  |  | Gao Xingjian: Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born novelist and playwright, the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature winner speaks to journalists near his bookcase October 12, 2000. Dissident writer Gao Xingjian, who left China in 1987, is the first literature laureate for six years to come from outside Europe and honors one of the greatest living writers in the Chinese language. One of his best known works is "Soul Mountain" in which he portrays an individual's search for roots , inner peace and liberty via an odyssey through the Chinese country side. REUTERS click to open |  | Gao Xingjian: This is a 1998 file photo of Gao Xingjian, 60, taken at his home in Paris. Xingjian, a self-exiled author whose individualistic works are banned in his native China, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, Oct. 12, 2000 --the first Chinese to win the award in its 100-year history. (AP Photo/Bei Jing) click to open |  | Gao Xingjian: Chinese writer Gao Xingjian who won the Nobel Prize in literature, reads one of his books as he poses by a mirror at his home of Bagnolet, an eastern suburb of Paris, Thursday, October 12, 2000. click to open |  | Gao Xingjian: Chinese writer Gao Xingjian who won the Nobel Prize in literature, gestures as he anwers reporters at his home of Bagnolet, an eastern suburb of Paris, Thursday, October 12, 2000. click to open |  | Gao Xingjian: Chinese writer Gao Xingjian who won the Nobel Prize in literature, anwers reporters at his home of Bagnolet, an eastern suburb of Paris, Thursday, October 12, 2000. Gao said he was surprised and honored by the distinction but would not use his new-found fame as a political forum to denounce China. (AP) click to open |  | Chinese writer Gao Xingjian: the 2000 Nobel Literature Prize winner click to open |
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