According to Baidu Encyclopedia, Gao Xingjian was born in Ganzhou, Jiangxi on June 4, 1940, and his ancestral home was Taizhou, Jiangsu. He is a French-born playwright, novelist, translator, painter, director and critic in China. 1962 graduated from Beijing foreign studies university majoring in French, 1987 moved to France, 1997 obtained French nationality. In 2000, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel Lingshan, becoming the first China writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. By 20 10, the work has been translated into 36 languages. His representative works include the novel Lingshan, One Man's Bible and the drama Absolute Signal and Station.