Xiaolu Guo
Novelist, Filmmaker and Essayist
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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Village of Stone
A novelist, filmmaker and essayist, Xiaolu Guo was born in a fishing village in the south of China in 1973. In 2000 she was awarded an MA in Film from the Beijing Film Academy and then came to London to study at the National Film and Television School.
Her most recent documentary, The Concrete Revolution, was screened at the Raindance Independent Film Festival, the Oxford International Documentary film festival and the New York film festival.
Village of Stone
, which evokes the harshness of life on the typhoon-battered coast of China, is her sixth book and the first to be published outside China. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
Xiaolu Guo was the winner of The Pearl Award for Creative Excellence in 2005.
She was also nominated for the 12th Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction in 2007, with her romantic comedy novel A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
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Village of Stone
Xiaolu Guo was the winner of The Pearl Award for Creative Excellence in 2005.
She was also nominated for the 12th Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction in 2007, with her romantic comedy novel A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
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