In 2000 the Chinese novelist Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize for
literature (诺贝尔文学奖). He was the first Chinese __1_ to win the world's
most important literary prize. It is said that 2 work has opened new ways for
the Chinese novel.
Gao was born in 1940 in Jiangxi Province, Eastern China. His father
worked in a bank and his mother was an actress. She 3 Gao's interests in the
theater.
When he left school, Gao studied French at the Department of Foreign
Languages in Beijing. After he graduated from college, he left 4 to live and
work in France in 1987. _5__ that time he has worked as a translator (翻译),
theater director and novelist. His most _ 6 _work is the novel "Soul Mountain
(灵山)". The story happens in the Chinese countryside. And the novel has
changed into 7 languages.
The Nobel Prize in 2000 was about $915,000. The Nobel Prizes include
prizes for different kinds of sciences 8 the Nobel Peace Prize. The money
was left by Alfred Nobel. He said that the literature prize 9 accept an author
whose work moves in an "ideal direction"(理想的方向).
The Nobel Prizes are given to the winner by the Swedish King every year
10 December 10,the anniversary (周年纪念日) of Nobel's death in 1896. |
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