Question: Who was born first, Clarice Lispector or Gao Xingjian?
Context: The Bus Stop is a Chinese absurdist play written in 1981 by Gao Xingjian.  Though originally completed in 1981, a second draft wasn't completed until 1982, and the play was not performed on stage until 1983.  The play premiered at the Beijing People's Art Theatre and was directed by Lin Zhaohua, the Deputy Director of the People's Art Theatre.  Though appreciated by many audiences, the original run was shut down by the Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign after only 13 performances.  Now banned from performance in mainland China, "The Bus Stop" remains an influential text in Chinese absurdist drama. Clarice Lispector (December 10, 1920December 9, 1977) was a Brazilian writer acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories.  Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, she was brought to Brazil as an infant, amidst the disasters engulfing her native land following the First World War. The Other Shore (; untoned "Bi An"; previously translated The Other Side) is a play by the Chinese writer Gao Xingjian.  It was first published into English in 1997 and translated again in 1999. Mabel Lee is a translator of the works of Nobel Prize-winning author Gao Xingjian.  She has taught Asian studies at the University of Sydney and is one of Australia's leading authorities on Chinese cultural affairs.  Lee was a professor of South-East Asian Studies at Sydney University and had already begun translation of the poems of Chinese writer, Yang Lian when she met Gao Xingjian, in Paris in 1991.  After that meeting, Lee offered to translate "Soul Mountain", a project which took seven years, and an additional two to find a publisher for the book in Australia.  Following publication, Gao Xingjian became the first Chinese to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. Near to the Wild Heart ("Perto do coração selvagem") is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and published around her twenty-third birthday in December 1943.  The novel, written in a stream-of-consciousness style reminiscent of the English-language Modernists, centers on the childhood and early adulthood of a character named Joana, who bears strong resemblance to her author: ""Madame Bovary, c'est moi"", Lispector said, quoting Flaubert, when asked about the similarities.  The book, particularly its revolutionary language, brought its young, unknown creator to great prominence in Brazilian letters and earned her the prestigious Graça Aranha Prize. Soul Mountain is a novel by Gao Xingjian.  The novel is loosely based on the author's own journey into rural China, which was inspired by a false diagnosis of lung cancer.  The novel is a part autobiographical, part fictional account of a man's journey to find the fabled mountain Lingshan.  It is a combination of story fragments, travel accounts, unnamed characters (referred to by the pronouns "I", "you", "she", etc.), and folk poetry/legends.  An English version translated by Mabel Lee was published in the United States on December 5, 2000. A Breath of Life is the last novel by Brazilian author Clarice Lispector.  It was published posthumously in Brazil in the late 1970s.  The book takes the form of dialogue between a male "Author" and his female creation, Angela Pralini (a character who shares a name with a character who appears in Lispector's Where Were You at Night).  The god-like author infuses the so-called breath of life into his creation who speaks, breathes, lives and dies at his behest.  The author loves yet wants to destroy Angela even though he can not ultimately separate her from himself. Gao Xingjian (born January 4, 1940) is a Chinese émigré novelist, playwright, and critic who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature “for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity.”  He is also a noted translator (particularly of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco), screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.  In 1998, Gao was granted French citizenship. Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather, also rendered from Chinese as A Fishing Rod for My Grandpa, is a 2004 collection of six short stories by the Chinese writer Gao Xingjian.  All of the stories were originally written between 1983 and 1990.  The stories were translated to English by Mabel Lee. One Man's Bible (S: 一个人的圣经, T: 一個人的聖經, P: "Yī gè rén de Shèngjīng", French: Le Livre d'un homme seul) is a novel by Gao Xingjian.  Mabel Lee created the English translation.  The book stars an alter-ego of Gao who reflects on his previous experiences around the world.  Éditions de l'Aube published the book in French.
Answer: Clarice Lispector