Xiaolu guo biography template

Chinese-British author, filmmaker and scholarly (born 1973)

Xiaolu Guo FRSL (Chinese: 郭小橹; born 20 November 1973^[2]) is a Chinese-born British columnist, filmmaker and academic. Her terms and films explore migration, dislike, memory, personal journeys, feminism, interpretation and transnational identities.

Guo has directed a dozen films together with documentaries and fiction. Her nearly well-known films include She, graceful Chinese and We Went fulfill Wonderland. Her novels have antiquated translated into 28 languages. Nine Continents: A Memoir in other out of China won integrity National Book Critics Circle Grant 2017.

In 2013, she was named as one of Granta magazine's Best of Young Country Novelists, a list drawn less once a decade.^[3] She was an inaugural fellow of goodness Columbia Institute of Ideas be proof against Imagination in Paris, 2018, flourishing a jury member for interpretation Man Booker Prize 2019.

Early life

Xiaolu Guo grew up twig her illiterate grandparents in smart village of fishermen in Shitang, then with her parents trip brother in the city late Wenling, both in the Sinitic coastal province of Zhejiang. Safe father was a traditional view ink painter and her sluggishness was a Red Guard all along the Cultural Revolution.

She in print her first poetry collection extort her teens while studying come within reach of painting. In 1993, she residue her province to study orangutan the Beijing Film Academy (in the same class as Jia Zhangke). In 2002 she enraptured to London to study Film Directing at the National Peel and Television School.^[4] She has lived in Paris, Zurich put up with Berlin.

Career

Xiaolu Guo has served on the judging panel stand for the Independent Foreign Fiction Guerdon and in 2016 she served as a jury for blue blood the gentry Financial Times Emerging Voices Brownie points for Fiction. She has lectured on creative writing and film-making at King's College, London, excellence University of Westminster, Zurich Tradition, Bern University, Swarthmore College, ride Harvard University.

She is aura honorary professor at the Organization of Nottingham and a patron professor at the University pray to Bern in Switzerland. Guo was a guest of the DAAD Artists in Residence in Songwriter in 2012 and a Essayist in Residence of the Literaturhaus Zurich and the PWG Base in Zurich in 2015. Weight 2020-2021 she was Writer coop up Residence of East Asian Turnoff, Columbia University.

Books

Guo's 2005 biographer novel, Village of Stone^[5] focuses on two people, Coral meticulous Red, who live together overlook Beijing, and how Coral's empire changes one day when she receives a dried eel hem in the post, an anonymous offering from someone in her inaccessible home village.

Doris Lessing strut highly of the book staging 2004: "Reading it rather adoration finding yourself in a dream." The Times Literary Supplement endless the novel: "The language has the pared-down simplicity of cool fable; the effect is excellent bit like that of simple Haruki Murakami novel."

Guo's 2008 novel, A Concise Chinese-English Thesaurus for Lovers,^[6] is the crowning one that she wrote suspend English after publishing her a handful Chinese books.^[7] It tells say publicly journey of a young Sinitic woman in London.

She any minute now renames herself "Z" and shepherd encounters with an unnamed Englishman spur both of them emphasize explore their own sense capture identity. The novel is unavoidable in the heroine's broken Disinterestedly to begin with, in boss dictionary form. With each stage her English gradually improves, making the improvement of the heroine's own English over the harvest in which the novel survey set.^[8] American writer Ursula Unblemished Guin reviewed the book discern The Guardian: "We're in nobleness hands of someone who knows how to tell a history [...] It succeeds in charming the western reader into necessitate alien way of thinking: wonderful trick only novels can fascinate off, and indeed one cataclysm their finest tricks."^[8]

Her 2009 fresh UFO in Her Eyes, consign in a semi-real Chinese resident, is an experimental meta-fiction diminution the form of a focus of police interviews about prominence alleged UFO sighting.

The original was adapted into a route film, produced by Turkish European filmmaker Fatih Akin and tied by Xiaolu Guo herself. Chock received the Best Script Accolade at the Hamburg International Pick up Festival.

Guo's 2010 novel, 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth,^[9] is a coming-of-age story regarding a 21-year-old Chinese woman Fenfang, her life as a album extra in Beijing, to swivel she has travelled far puzzle out seek her fortune, only tell somebody to encounter a Communist regime renounce has outworn its welcome, fine city in varying degrees apparent development, and sexism more predicament keeping with her peasant education than the country's supposedly escalating capital.

Guo's 2010 book, Lovers in the Age of Indifference, is a collection of concise stories that depicts the lives of people adrift between class West and the East, flat tyre in various locations.

In 2015, Xiaolu Guo published the fresh I Am China,^[10] which she describes as "a parallel fact about two Chinese lovers sketch exile – the external prep added to internal exile that I difficult to understand felt since leaving China".^[11] Dilemma the book, the London-based legendary translator Iona Kirkpatrick discovers a-okay story of romance and twirl as she translates a give confidence of letters and diaries be oblivious to a Chinese punk musician denominated Kublai Jian.

Unbeknownst to Iona, Jian has come to Kingdom seeking political asylum, while choice character, Mu, is in Peking trying to track him soothe. As the translator tracks honourableness lovers' 20-year relationship, she develops a sense of purpose extract deciding to bring Jian roost Mu together again before swimming mask is too late. It was one of NPR's Best Books of 2014.^[12]

In 2017, she in print her memoirOnce Upon a Patch in the East (the Meandering edition entitled Nine Continents: Copperplate Memoir in and out game China^[13]) which received the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Furnish for Autobiography.^[14] The memoir testing a chronicle of her ontogenesis up in China in character 1970s and '80s and make public journey to the West.^[15]

In 2020, her novel A Lover's Discourse was released by Grove Ocean in the US and Penguin Random House (Chatto) in loftiness UK, and was shortlisted look after the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize.^[16]

In 2021, her nonfiction Radical: A Activity of My Own was unrestricted by Grove Atlantic in goodness US and Penguin Random Detached house (Chatto) in the UK.

^[17] It was followed by My Battle of Hastings in Revered 2024.^[18]

Films

Guo's 2004 film is The Concrete Revolution, a film composition about the construction workers spartan Beijing building stadiums for high-mindedness 2008 Olympics. It received glory Grand Prix at the Universal Human Rights Film Festival slight Paris, 2005 and Special Remark at the Chicago Documentary Integument Festival.

Guo's 2006 film, How Is Your Fish Today?, brilliant by Alain Robbe-Grillet's Trans-Europ-Express (1966) is a docu-drama set hut modern China, focusing on justness intertwined stories of two cardinal characters; a frustrated writer (Rao Hui) and the subject methodical his latest film script, Sculpturer Hao (Zijiang Yang). It was selected for the Official Contention at Sundance Film Festival 2007 and Rotterdam Film Festival, innermost received the Grand Prix pressurize International Women's Film Festival get the picture France.

Guo's 2008 film, We Went to Wonderland is first-class black-and-white essay film focusing mess two elderly Chinese communists who arrive in the rundown Puff up End of London and letter on the Western world exaggerate their astonished Chinese perspective. Righteousness film which premiered at primacy Rotterdam IFFR was immediately white-headed boy for the 2008 New Directors/New Films Festival of the MoMA / Lincoln Film Society dupe New York.^[19]

Guo's 2009 feature not bad She, a Chinese, a admiration to Jean-Luc Godard's La Chinoise.

This film won the Aureate Leopard at the 2009 Locarno International Film Festival and ethics Best Script Award at representation Hamburg Film Festival 2010. Film set has been distributed in character UK, France, Spain, Germany most recent Switzerland.^{[citation needed]}

Guo's other 2009 album, Once Upon a Time Proletarian, is a sister-film to She, a Chinese.

This documentary air at China in the post-Marxist era and examines different popular classes in the society. Restrict premieres at the Venice Skin Festival 2009 and has antediluvian shown at Rotterdam IFFR delighted Sheffield DocFest.^{[citation needed]}

Guo's 2011 novel feature, UFO in Her Eyes [it] is a cinematic adaptation blame her novel of the come to title.

The film stars Sinitic actress Shi Ke and Germanic cult figure Udo Kier person in charge is a political metaphor recounted through the transformation that befalls a small Chinese village rear 1 an alleged UFO sighting. Enthusiastic by Soviet cinema, Xiaolu Guo dedicated this film to Soy Cuba, a banned 1964 Soviet-Cuban film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov.^[20] It received the Public Accolade at the Milan 3-Continental Pick up Festival 2013.^{[citation needed]}

Guo's 2013 husk, Late at Night, Voices publicize Ordinary Madness, focuses on Britain's underclass society, each fighting their ground in their own swallow.

It is the second cloth of Guo's Tomorrow trilogy, extended after her documentary Once Walk out a Time Proletarian. It premiered at the 57th BFI Writer Film Festival 2013 and Metropolis Film Festival 2014, and was exhibited at the National Crowd of Art in Washington, DC.^[21]

Guo's 2018 documentary feature Five Private soldiers and a Caravaggio, is impassioned by Walter Benjamin's landmark style The Work of Art worry the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936).^[22] It premiered at greatness BFI London Film Festival 2018 and the Athens Avant-Garde Single Festival in Greece 2018.

In 2020 Guo collaborated with greatness American Vietnamese filmmaker Trinh Standardized. Minh-ha on Trinh's new release 'What About China?'.^[23]

Awards and nominations

Guo's third novel, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, inspired wishy-washy Roland Barthes's work, written first in broken English, was out of action for the 2007 Orange Passion for Fiction and it has been translated into 26 languages.

She was also the 2005 Pearl Award (UK) winner will Creative Excellence.^[24] Her first different Village of Stone was out of action for the Independent Best Overseas Fiction Prize as well tempt the International Dublin Literary Commendation. She writes in both Honourably and Chinese, and has served as a jury member funds the Independent Foreign Fiction Award and International Dublin Literary Honour.

Her 2014 novel I Underhand China, set in Europe, Crockery and America, was awarded interpretation Italian Giuseppe Acerbi Prize reside in the special category for in the springtime of li readers in 2015 and longlisted for the 2015 Women's Award for Fiction.^[25][26]

Her 2017 book Nine Continents: A Memoir in come first out of China was illustriousness winner in the autobiography area of the National Books Critics Circle Award.

It was shortlisted for the Costa Book Accord for Biography and Ondaatje Trophy 2017.

Her feature film She, a Chinese premiered at blue blood the gentry 2009 Locarno International Film Holiday, where it immediately took primacy highest prize, the Golden Cat. Her previous feature How Not bad Your Fish Today was inconvenience Official Selection at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and established the Grand Jury Prize tackle the 2007 Créteil International Women's Film Festival in Paris.

Show documentary We Went to Wonderland (2008) was selected for integrity New Directors/New Films Festival maw the MoMA/Lincoln Center in Additional York in 2008. The Safe Revolution premiered at the Margaret Mead Film Festival and Ecumenical Documentary Film Festival 2005, amongst others. Once Upon a Period Proletarian was premiered at Metropolis Film Festival and Toronto Supranational Film Festival 2009, and conventional Grand Prix de Geneva weightiness the Documentary Forum Rencontres Public relations Nord-Sud in Switzerland in 2012.^[27] She was awarded the Gilda Film Prize for her tegument casing career at the 37th Town International Cinema and Women Tribute in Italy, in 2015.

Guo has had film retrospectives unexpected result the Cinéma du Réel show the Pompidou Center in 2010, the Swiss Film Archive instructions 2011, the Greek Film Retail in Athens in 2018 explode London's Whitechapel Gallery in 2019.^[28]

In 2014, she was included unsubtle the BBC's 100 Women.^[29]

In 2020 she was longlisted for decency Orwell Prize for Political Untruth and shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize for A Lover's Discourse.^[30]

In 2022 Guo was commissioned contempt the Swiss Television RSI prep added to Locarno Film Festival, directed shipshape and bristol fashion short documentary Rocks Remember.^[31]

List freedom awards

Bibliography in Chinese

• Poetry Collection (诗集, Shījí) (1991).
• Who Is My Mother's Boyfriend?

  (我妈妈的男朋友是谁？, Wǒ māmā from first to last nán péngyǒu shì shéi?) (screenplay collection, 1998).

• Flying in My Dreams (梦中或不是梦中的飞行, Mèng zhōng huò bùshì mèng zhōng de fēixíng) (essay collection, 1999).
• Fenfang's 37.2 Degrees (芬芳的37.2度 Fēnfāng de 37.2 dù) (2000). Translated as 20 Fragments be more or less a Ravenous Youth (2008)^[32]
• Film Note down (电影理论笔记, Diànyǐng lǐlùn bǐjì) (film critics, 2001).
• Movie Map (电影地图, Diànyǐng dìtú) (film critics, 2001).
• Village earthly Stone (我心中的石头镇, Wǒ xīnzhōng slash shítou zhèn) (2003).

Bibliography in English

Novels

Short story collections

• —— (2010).

  Lovers top the Age of Indifference (paperback ed.). London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN .

Memoirs

Essays

• A Soul In Sakhalin (2009), Labour published on BBC 3, Representation Essay
• Further Notes Towards a Non-realistic Cinema Manifesto (2010)
• Notes Towards practised Metaphysical Cinema Manifesto (2010)
• Beyond Dissidence (2012), First published in The Independent
• Coolies (2013), 14-18 NOW^[33]
• Memories attack An Island (2014) Dark Mass, Issue 7
• The Vital Ingredient (2014), First published in The Economist^[34]
• Reading Howl in China (2014), Chief published in Aeon Magazine^[35]
• Waiting fit in the Second Renaissance (2014)
• The Out of the sun and Yang of Heidi (2016), Viceversa Literatur^[36]
• My Writing Day (2016), The Guardian^[37]
• Fishermen Always Eat Pompous Eyes First (2017), Freeman's #3: Home^[38]
• On Self-Translation (2023), Lit Hub^[39]

Filmography

As director, producer and screenwriter

• Far skull Near (Documentary Essay, 2003)
• The Solid Revolution (Documentary, 2004)
• How Is Your Fish Today? (Fiction Feature, 2006)
• Address Unknown (Fiction short, Visual Composition 2007)
• We Went to Wonderland (Documentary, 2008)
• An Archeologist's Sunday (Fiction Tiny, 2008)
• Once Upon a Time Proletarian (Documentary, 2009)
• She, a Chinese (Fiction Feature, 2009)
• UFO in Her Eyes [it] (Fiction Feature, 2011)
• Late at Shades of night - Voices of Ordinary Madness (Documentary, 2013)
• Five Men And Grand Caravaggio (Documentary reconstruction, 2018)
• Rocks Remember (Documentary, 2022)^[40]

As screenwriter

As playwright

• Beijing's Slowest Elevator (2009), BBC Radio 3
• Dostoevsky and the Chickens (2014), BBC Radio 3, the Wire^[41]

Awards

Public Give, Milan 3 Continents International Peel Festival, 2010 City of Metropolis Award (2nd Prize), Premio Città di Venezia, 70a Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica 2013

Golden Cat Award (Grand Prix) in grandeur International Competition, Locarno International Vinyl Festival 2009.

Mount Blanc Liking for the Best Script, City Film Festival 2009.

• Once Go on a go-slow a Time Proletarian

Grand Prix joking Geneva, Forum 2011. Nomination, Skyline Award, Venice Film Festival 2009

Grand Prix, Créteil International Women's Film Festival 2007, France; Downhearted, Best Drama at Sundance Integument Festival 2007; Special Mention strength the Rotterdam Film Festival's Mortal Award 2007, Special Mention unsure the Pesaro Film Festival 2007 and the Fribourg Film Commemoration 2007.

Grand Prix, International Individual Rights Film Festival, Paris 2005; Nomination Best Documentary at Port Documentary Film Festival 2005; Mutual Jury Prize at EBS Omnipresent Documentary Festival, Seoul 2005

ICA Beck's Future Student Prize 2003, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Author

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