Fiction

Xiaolu Guo in conversation with Paul Blezard

Xiaolu Guo is a novelist, essayist, screenwriter and film maker. Her novel in English translation, Village of Stone (2004), was shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. It was followed by her first novel written in English, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2007), which tells the story of Z, a Chinese student‘s encounters in London and her inner journey of self-discovery. It was shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction.

Xialou Guo is one of the most successful Chinese writers currently publishing in Britain.