Gao Xingjian's 70th Birthday (Symposium)
http://www.soas.ac.uk/events/event55389.html
4 January 2010 is the 70th birthday of Gao Xingjian, the 2000 Nobel Laureate in Literature. To celebrate his birthday, a symposium will be held at SOAS, University of London, featuring a lecture by the author and the screening of three of his films. Mr Gao Xingjian is both a writer and a painter. The symposium will focus on his works and thoughts, and his contribution to fiction, poetry, drama and theatrical art, Chinese ink-painting and film, as well as his theory of art and literature.
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Happy Birthday Gao Xingjian! We'll try to post links to online material about the symposium, but if any of our overseas contributors are able to attend this event, please send us a post - we'd love to hear from you.
Cindy Carter, January 2, 2010, 1:51p.m.
Yes, I'll blog the second day - 5th.
Nicky Harman, January 3, 2010, 12:38p.m.