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Which Chinese writers have won the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Zhang Fei on the Long Sloped Bridge Turning Away One Million Wei Troops with a Powerful Stare, woodblock colour print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1884. It depicts a scene from the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Two Chinese writers have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature:
- Gao Xingjian: A novelist, playwright, and critic who received the prize in 2000 for an oeuvre characterized by universal validity, bitter insights, and linguistic ingenuity.12
- Mo Yan: A novelist and short-story writer known for his imaginative and humanistic fiction, who was awarded the prize in 2012.32