Xiaolu Guo
Xiaolu Guo is a writer and film-maker. Her novels include A Concise Chinese–English Dictionary for Lovers, shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction, UFO in Her Eyes and I Am China, longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her memoir Once Upon a Time in the East is published in 2017. She was one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2013. She lives in Berlin and London.
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 138
Well Done, No. 3777!
Xiaolu Guo
‘I grew up in the semi-tropical south, dotted by wet paddy fields, but I always wanted to go to the north.’