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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
Gao Xingjian
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Gao Xingjian
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: January 4
Film Director
Literary Critic
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Painter
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Xingjian Gao
Hành Kiện Cao
Hsing-chien Kao
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