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| Born | 20 November 1973 China | ||||||||
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| Nationality | British (formerly Chinese)[1] | ||||||||
| Period | 1987–present | ||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 郭小櫓 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 郭小橹 | ||||||||
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Xiaolu Guo FRSL (Chinese: 郭小橹; born 20 November 1973[2]) is a Chinese-born British author, filmmaker and academic. Her writing and films explore migration, alienation, memory, personal journeys, feminism, translation and transnational identities.
Guo has directed a dozen films including documentaries and fiction. Her most well-known films include She, a Chinese and We Went to Wonderland. Her novels have been translated into 28 languages. Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China won the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017. In 2013, she was named as one of Granta 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.
- ^ Guo, Xiaolu (2017). "Cutting up nationality". Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up. Chatto & Windus. pp. 269–274. ISBN 9781784740689.
- ^ "Xiaolu Guo: Far East to East End". The Independent. 26 January 2007. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
- ^ "Granta 123: Best of Young British Novelists 4". Granta. Retrieved 12 July 2024.