On 12 October 2000 it was announced that for the first time in its 100-year history, the Nobel Prize in Literature would go to a Chinese author writing in Chinese-Gao Xingjian.
十月十二日，已有百年歷史的諾貝爾獎，第一次將文學獎頒給以中文寫作的華人作家──高行健。