Gao Xingjian is the first China-born individual to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is famous not only for his novels, including Soul Mountain and One Man's Bible, which have been published in many languages, and his collections of critical essays, including Gao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation, but also for his plays and operas which have been performed in various languages on five continents. Gao is also a talented painter, and there have been ninety solo exhibitions in Asia, Europe, and the United States held for his creations, and in 2015 his large six-panel artwork The Awakening of the Consciousness was made a permanent display at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. An innovative producer of transmedia creations, his cine-poems to date are Silhouette/ Shadow, After the Flood, and Requiem for Beauty.