Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo is a novelist, essayist and filmmaker born in China who later moved to London. She studied at the Beijing Film Academy and Britain’s National Film and Television School, developing a practice across written and moving-image storytelling.

Her books include Village of Stone, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers and I Am China. The Dictionary, her first novel written in English, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Her film She, a Chinese won the Golden Leopard at Locarno, and she adapted her novel UFO in Her Eyes for the screen. Her work follows people negotiating language, migration and changing cultural identities.