Laureate doubts he will return

Frankfurt - The blacklisted Chinese writer, Gao Xingjian, still "flabbergasted" at winning the Nobel Literature Prize, said yesterday…

Frankfurt - The blacklisted Chinese writer, Gao Xingjian, still "flabbergasted" at winning the Nobel Literature Prize, said yesterday he doubted he would ever return to his homeland.

Gao insisted at the Krankfurt Book Fair that he was never interested in politics and condemned China's Cultural Revolution as a national nightmare.

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