Biography
Xiaolu Guo FRSL (Chinese: 郭小橹; born 20 November 1973) is a Chinese-born British novelist, memoirist and film-maker, who explores migration, alienation, memory, personal journeys, feminism, translation and transnational identities.
Guo has directed a dozen films including documentaries and fictions. 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. She is one of the inaugural fellows of the Columbia Institute of Ideas and Imagination in Paris, 2018, and a jury member for the Man Booker Prize 2019. She is currently a visiting professor and Writer-in-Residence at Columbia University in New York City.
Filmography
all 15
Movies 13
Director 8
TV Shows 2
self 2
Writer 2
What about China? (2020)
Five Men and a Caravaggio (2018)
Babel (2014)
Kunscht! (2014)
Late at Night: Voices of Ordinary Madness (2013)
UFO in Her Eyes (2011)
Once Upon a Time Proletarian (2009)
She, a Chinese (2009)
3 Short Films About Home (2009)
We Went To Wonderland (2008)
How Is Your Fish Today? (2006)
The Concrete Revolution (2004)
Far and Near (2003)
Dream House (1999)
Love in the Internet Generation (1998)
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Known ForWriting
GenderFemale
Birthday1973-11-20 (50 years old)
Birth PlaceWenling, China
CitizenshipsChina, United Kingdom
Also Known As郭小櫓, 郭小橹
AwardsBBC 100 Women, Golden Leopard
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