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Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo
Xiaolu Guo is a Chinese British novelist, memoirist, and filmmaker. Her novels include A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, I Am China, and A Lover’s Discourse. Her memoir Once Upon a Time in the East won the NBCC Award. Radical, a Life of My Own, is out now from Chatto. Named as a Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2013, she also directed a dozen films, including How Is Your Fish Today (Sundance Official Selection) and UFO in Her Eyes (TIFF). She is currently a Samuel Fischer Guest Professor at the Free University in Berlin and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.


Xiaolu Guo on Translating
the Self

“I want to talk about the possibilities of translation.”
March 10, 2023  By Xiaolu Guo
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I’ll See You in Berlin: Xiaolu Guo on a Fresh Start in a New City

"I Wanted to Shoot myself out of London and Everything Else Forever"
October 12, 2017  By Xiaolu Guo
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Leaving the Village: Xiaolu Guo on a Traumatic Uprooting

"That place made me a hard person, a stoic and even merciless person"
March 28, 2017  By Xiaolu Guo
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