Early years in Jiangxi and Jiangsu

Years in Beijing and Anhui

Years in Europe and Paris

Dramas and performances

• ?????? (Signal Alarm, 1982)
• 1982, in Beijing People's Art Theatre
• 1992, in Taiwan
• ???? (Bus Stop, 1983)
• 1983, in Beijing People's Art Theatre
• 1984, in Yugoslavia
• 1986, in Hong Kong
• 1988, in Britain
• 1992, in Austria
• 1999, in Japan
• ???? (Wild Men, "Savages", 1985)
• 1985, in Beijing People's Art Theatre
• 1988, in Hamburg, Germany
• 1990, in Hong Kong
• ???? (The Other Shore, 1986)
• 1986, published in magazine Oct. (????), Beijing
• 1990, in Taiwan
• 1994, translated into Swedish by Göran Malmqvist
• 1995, in The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
• 1997, translated into English by Jo Riley as The Other Side
• 1999, translated into English by Gilbert C. F. Fong
• ???? (Shelter the Rain)
• 1981, in Sweden
• ???? (Dark City)
• 1988, in Hong Kong
• ??????? (Transition of Sheng-Sheng-Man)
• 1989, in United States
• ???? (Escape)
• 1990, published in magazine Today (????)
• 1990, in Sweden
• 1992, in Germany, Poland
• 1994, in France
• 1997, in Japan, Africa
• ????? (Death Sector / Between Life and Death)
• 1991, published in magazine Today (????)
• 1992, in France
• 1994, in Sydney, Italy
• 1996, in Poland
• 1996, in US
• ?????? (A Tale of Shan Hai Jing)
• 1992, published by Hong Kong Tian & Di Book Press (????????)
• ??????? (Dialogue & Rhetorical / Dialogue and Rebuttal)
• 1992, published in magazine Today (????)
• 1992, in Vienna
• 1995, 1999, in Paris
• ??????? (Weekends Quartet / Weekend Quartet)
• 1999, published by Hong Kong New Century Press (????????)
• ????? (Nighthawk / Nocturnal Wanderer)
• 1999, in France
• ????? (Snow in August)
• 2000, published by Taiwan Lianjing Press (???????)
• 19 Dec 2002, in Taipei
• ???????? (Collection)
• ????????? (Collection, 1995, published by Taiwan Dijiao Press (???????))
• ????? (Xinglunan)
• ?????? (Mountain Kebala)
• ???? (Soliloquy)

Fiction

• ??????? ("Constellation in a Cold Night", 1979)
• ?????????? ("Such a Pigeon called Red Lips", 1984) - a collection of novellas
• ????????? (Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather, 1986-1990) - a short story collection
• ???? (Soul Mountain, 1989)
• ???????? (One Man's Bible, 1998)

Poem

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Sky Burial

Cut / Scalped / Pounded into pieces / Light an incense / Blow the whistle / Come / Gone / Out and out

Other texts

• ??????? (Ba Jin in Paris, 1979, essay)
• ?????????? ("A Preliminary Examination of Modern Fictional Techniques", 1981)
• ??????????? (1983)
• ?????? (Without -isms, translated by W. Lau, D. Sauviat & M. Williams // Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia. Vols 27 & 28, 1995—96
• ???????????? (1988, published by China Drama Press (???????))
• ????·2000???......????????? (1999, published by Hong Kong Mingpao Press (???????))

Paintings

• Le goût de l'encre, Paris, Hazan 2002
• Return to Painting, New York, Perennial 2002
• “????·????”, Singapore, 17 Nov 2005 - 7 Feb 2006
• The End of the World, Germany, 29 Mar - 27 May 2007

Works in English

• Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather, short stories, trans. Mabel Lee, Flamingo, London, 2004, ISBN 0-00-717038-6
• Soul Mountain, novel, trans. Mabel Lee, Flamingo, London, 2001, ISBN 0-00-711923-2
• One Man's Bible, novel, trans. Mabel Lee, Flamingo, ISBN 0-06-621132-8
• The Other Shore, plays, trans. G. Fong, Chinese University Press, ISBN 962-201-862-9
• The Other Side, play, trans. Jo Riley, in An Oxford Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama, 1997, ISBN 0-19-586880-3
• Silhouette/Shadow: The Cinematic Art of Gao Xingjian, film/images/poetry, ed. Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Contours, Paris, ISBN 978-981-05-9207-3

Official response from mainland China

• Q.: What's your comment on Gao's winning Nobel Prize ?
• A.: I am very happy that works written in Chinese can win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Chinese characters have a history of several thousand years, and Chinese language has an infinite charm, (I) believe that there will be Chinese works winning Nobel Prizes again in the future. Although it's a pity that the winner this time is a French citizen instead of Chinese, I still would like to send my congratulations both to the winner and the French Department of Culture. (Original words: ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????)

Comments from Chinese writers

Honors

• 1992, Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• 2000, Nobel Prize in Literature
• 2006, Lions Award, by the New York Public Library (NYPL) at Library Lions Benefit event

• Gao Xingjian's Swedish translator Göran Malmqvist, is a member of the Swedish Academy and was responsible for the translation to Swedish for Nobel Prize consideration. Ten days before the award decision was made public, Gao Xingjian changed his Swedish publisher (from Forum to Atlantis), but Göran Malmqvist has denied leaking information about the award [1].
• Gao is one of the two Nobel laureates to give an Nobel acceptance speech in Chinese so far (after Samuel C. C. Ting in 1976).
• Gao has been the center of an artistic piece of video art. The art exhibit is entitled 'Voom' and was presented at the University of Iowa art museum in March 2008.