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.
