Books by Xingjian Gao

Gao Xingjian was born on 4 January 1940, in war-torn China. During the 1960s and 1970s, he wrote a number of works of prose, plays and poems, aware that what he wrote could not be published, since they failed to comply with the government's strict guidelines. He was finally able to publish a substantial number of works during the 1980s, but when a ban was imposed on the performance of his play Bus Stop in 1983, Gao Xingjian finally fled Beijing and began the long journey as a political refugee which forms the autobiographical basis of Soul Mountain. He now lives in Paris, where he continues to write and paint, and is a French citizen.