Creative Conversations: Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo FRSL is a Chinese-born British author, filmmaker and academic. Her writing and films explore migration, alienation, memory, personal journeys, feminism, translation and transnational identities.

Her books include the novels: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth , UFO in Her Eyes , I Am China, A Lover's Discourse , the short story collection, Lovers in the Age of Indifference and the memoirs, Once Upon a Time in the East, Nine Continents: A Memoir in and out of China, Radical and My Battle of Hastings.

Guo has directed a dozen films including documentaries and fiction. Her most well-known films include and We Went to Wonderland. Her novels have been translated into 28 languages. won the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017. In 2013, she was named as one of magazine's Best of Young British Novelists, a list drawn up once a decade.[3] She was an inaugural fellow of the Columbia Institute of Ideas and Imagination in Paris, 2018, and a jury member for the Man Booker Prize 2019.

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