![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Liu rose to fame in 1980s Chinese literary circles with his exemplary literary critiques, and eventually became a visiting scholar at several international universities. On 26 June 2017, he was granted medical parole after being diagnosed with liver cancer, and died a few days later on 13 July 2017. He was arrested numerous times, and has been described as China's most prominent dissident and the country's most famous political prisoner. Liu Xiaobo ( Chinese: 刘晓波 pinyin: Liú Xiǎobō 28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017) was a Chinese writer, literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end communist one-party rule in China. "Liu Xiaobo" in Simplified (top) and Traditional (bottom) Chinese characters
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