Chinese writer Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2000, the Swedish Academy said on Thursday. Gao won the prize, worth nearly $1 million, for "an oeuvre of universal validity ...

The 2013 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Canadian short-story master Alice Munro. From Mo Yan to Tomas Tranströmer to Gao Xingjian, here are all the winners since the year 2000.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Chinese novelist Gao Xingjian has won the Nobel Prize in literature for his "bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity," and becomes the first Chinese writer to win the ...

SEATTLE — There ought to be a Nobel Prize for readers. Consider the terrible isolation of the reader, for example, turning the pages of Gao Xingjian’s Nobel Prize-winning novel, “Soul ...

“Mr. Petersson has read 98% of Gao Xingjian’s literature. He has the right to guess, as anyone else does, who would be the recipient” of the Nobel Prize, Malmqvist said of the Atlantis chief ...

On his second visit to Taiwan after being awarded with the Nobel Prize in literature last year, exiled Chinese writer Gao Xingjian (高行健) arrived in the country yesterday for a two-week stay. Besides ...

Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in 1940 in Jiangxi Province, Gao Xingjian earned a degree in French literature in Beijing and settled in Paris in ...

Exiled Chinese Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian said he was embarrassed by ... The central Government has said the conferring of the Nobel Prize for Literature on Gao was politically motivated.

Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday ... The communist leadership also disowned the Nobel when Gao Xingjian won the literature award in 2000 for his absurdist ...

The haunting black-and-white paintings are the work of Gao Xingjian, the first Chinese ... "Soul Mountain", for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2000. "Painting and literature are two ...