Buying A Fishing Rod For My Grandfather Stories

Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Born in 1940 in Jiangxi Province in eastern China, he studied in state schools, earned a university degree in French in Beijing, and embarked on a life of letters. Choosing exile in 1987, he settled in Paris, where he completed Soul Mountain two years later. In 1992 he was named a Chevalier de I'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He is a playwright and painter as well as a fiction writer and critic Mabel Lee, Ph.D., has been a professor of Asian studies at the University of Sydney. Dr. Lee is one of Australia's leading authorities on Chinese cultural affairsXingjian, Gao is the author of 'Buying A Fishing Rod For My Grandfather Stories', published 2005 under ISBN 9780060575564 and ISBN 0060575565.