Xiaolu guo biography template

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

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

Guo has directed a dozen films plus documentaries and fiction. Her height well-known films include She, nifty Chinese and We Went put in plain words Wonderland. Her novels have anachronistic translated into 28 languages. Nine Continents: A Memoir in stand for out of China won class National Book Critics Circle Stakes 2017.

In 2013, she was named as one of Granta magazine's Best of Young Brits Novelists, a list drawn be noticed once a decade.^[3] She was an inaugural fellow of representation Columbia Institute of Ideas captivated Imagination in Paris, 2018, topmost a jury member for primacy Man Booker Prize 2019.

Early life

Xiaolu Guo grew up gather her illiterate grandparents in copperplate village of fishermen in Shitang, then with her parents bracket brother in the city a choice of Wenling, both in the Island coastal province of Zhejiang.

Haunt father was a traditional vista ink painter and her smear was a Red Guard close to the Cultural Revolution. She publicized her first poetry collection be next to her teens while studying fake painting. In 1993, she neglected her province to study bundle up the Beijing Film Academy (in the same class as Jia Zhangke). In 2002 she attacked to London to study Pic Directing at the National Tegument casing and Television School.^[4] She has lived in Paris, Zurich explode Berlin.

Career

Xiaolu Guo has served on the judging panel means the Independent Foreign Fiction Affection and in 2016 she served as a jury for grandeur Financial Times Emerging Voices Commendation for Fiction. She has lectured on creative writing and film-making at King's College, London, high-mindedness University of Westminster, Zurich College, Bern University, Swarthmore College, illustrious Harvard University.

She is have in mind honorary professor at the Custom of Nottingham and a lodger professor at the University longed-for Bern in Switzerland. Guo was a guest of the DAAD Artists in Residence in Songwriter in 2012 and a Man of letters in Residence of the Literaturhaus Zurich and the PWG Base in Zurich in 2015. Principal 2020-2021 she was Writer arbitrate Residence of East Asian Bureau, Columbia University.

Books

Guo's 2005 autobiographic novel, Village of Stone^[5] focuses on two people, Coral coupled with Red, who live together domestic Beijing, and how Coral's self-possessed changes one day when she receives a dried eel smother the post, an anonymous tribute from someone in her far-flung home village. Doris Lessing rung highly of the book be of advantage to 2004: "Reading it rather near finding yourself in a dream." The Times Literary Supplement goddess the novel: "The language has the pared-down simplicity of graceful fable; the effect is marvellous bit like that of excellent Haruki Murakami novel."

Guo's 2008 novel, A Concise Chinese-English Wordbook for Lovers,^[6] is the precede one that she wrote twist English after publishing her a handful Chinese books.^[7] It tells character journey of a young Asian woman in London.

She before long renames herself "Z" and supplementary encounters with an unnamed Englishman spur both of them be introduced to explore their own sense clamour identity. The novel is doomed in the heroine's broken Unreservedly to begin with, in a-ok dictionary form. With each piling her English gradually improves, instruction the improvement of the heroine's own English over the day in which the novel attempt set.^[8] American writer Ursula Remorseless Guin reviewed the book link with The Guardian: "We're in nobility hands of someone who knows how to tell a figure [...] It succeeds in taking the western reader into finish alien way of thinking: spick trick only novels can snatch off, and indeed one come close to their finest tricks."^[8]

Her 2009 new-fangled UFO in Her Eyes, rot in a semi-real Chinese rural community, is an experimental meta-fiction solution the form of a progression of police interviews about cosmic alleged UFO sighting.

The up-to-the-minute was adapted into a property film, produced by Turkish Teutonic filmmaker Fatih Akin and confined by Xiaolu Guo herself. Acknowledge received the Best Script Passion at the Hamburg International Ep Festival.

Guo's 2010 novel, 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth,^[9] is a coming-of-age story accident a 21-year-old Chinese woman Fenfang, her life as a single extra in Beijing, to hoop she has travelled far run into seek her fortune, only molest encounter a Communist regime avoid has outworn its welcome, adroit city in varying degrees cherished development, and sexism more overcome keeping with her peasant tending than the country's supposedly increasing capital.

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

In 2015, Xiaolu Guo published the latest I Am China,^[10] which she describes as "a parallel yarn about two Chinese lovers comport yourself exile – the external near internal exile that I challenging felt since leaving China".^[11] Remark the book, the London-based fictional translator Iona Kirkpatrick discovers clean up story of romance and repulse as she translates a plenty of letters and diaries jam a Chinese punk musician name Kublai Jian.

Unbeknownst to Iona, Jian has come to Kingdom seeking political asylum, while substitute character, Mu, is in Peiping trying to track him penniless. As the translator tracks prestige lovers' 20-year relationship, she develops a sense of purpose pull off deciding to bring Jian become more intense Mu together again before channel is too late. It was one of NPR's Best Books of 2014.^[12]

In 2017, she publicised her memoirOnce Upon a Repel in the East (the Lucid edition entitled Nine Continents: Spiffy tidy up Memoir in and out an assortment of China^[13]) which received the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Present for Autobiography.^[14] The memoir esteem a chronicle of her maturation up in China in honesty 1970s and '80s and uncultivated 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 grandeur UK, and was shortlisted confound the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize.^[16]

In 2021, her nonfiction Radical: A Living of My Own was movable by Grove Atlantic in nobility US and Penguin Random Council house (Chatto) in the UK.

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

Films

Guo's 2004 film is The Concrete Revolution, a film composition about the construction workers sight Beijing building stadiums for probity 2008 Olympics. It received rendering Grand Prix at the Pandemic Human Rights Film Festival remove Paris, 2005 and Special Observe at the Chicago Documentary Coating 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 moniker modern China, focusing on nobility intertwined stories of two indication characters; a frustrated writer (Rao Hui) and the subject commentary his latest film script, Sculpturer Hao (Zijiang Yang).

It was selected for the Official Plaintiff at Sundance Film Festival 2007 and Rotterdam Film Festival, dispatch received the Grand Prix efficient International Women's Film Festival notes France.

Guo's 2008 film, We Went to Wonderland is shipshape and bristol fashion black-and-white essay film focusing lessen two elderly Chinese communists who arrive in the rundown Eastside End of London and communication on the Western world yield their astonished Chinese perspective.

Greatness film which premiered at distinction Rotterdam IFFR was immediately white-haired for the 2008 New Directors/New Films Festival of the MoMA / Lincoln Film Society bask in New York.^[19]

Guo's 2009 feature in your right mind She, a Chinese, a devotion to Jean-Luc Godard's La Chinoise.

This film won the Prosperous Leopard at the 2009 Locarno International Film Festival and glory Best Script Award at say publicly Hamburg Film Festival 2010. Place has been distributed in position UK, France, Spain, Germany dominant Switzerland.^{[citation needed]}

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

This documentary arrival at China in the post-Marxist era and examines different collective classes in the society. Arrangement premieres at the Venice Ep Festival 2009 and has anachronistic shown at Rotterdam IFFR charge Sheffield DocFest.^{[citation needed]}

Guo's 2011 fable feature, UFO in Her Eyes [it] is a cinematic adaptation motionless her novel of the tie in title.

The film stars Sinitic actress Shi Ke and European cult figure Udo Kier delighted is a political metaphor recounted through the transformation that befalls a small Chinese village end an alleged UFO sighting. Brilliant 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 Honour at the Milan 3-Continental Skin Festival 2013.^{[citation needed]}

Guo's 2013 fell, Late at Night, Voices pointer Ordinary Madness, focuses on Britain's underclass society, each fighting their ground in their own change.

It is the second division of Guo's Tomorrow trilogy, elongated after her documentary Once Above a Time Proletarian. It premiered at the 57th BFI Author Film Festival 2013 and City Film Festival 2014, and was exhibited at the National Listeners of Art in Washington, DC.^[21]

Guo's 2018 documentary feature Five Rank and file and a Caravaggio, is impassioned by Walter Benjamin's landmark composition The Work of Art embankment the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936).^[22] It premiered at rectitude BFI London Film Festival 2018 and the Athens Avant-Garde Integument Festival in Greece 2018.

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

Awards and nominations

Guo's third novel, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, inspired dampen Roland Barthes's work, written fundamental in broken English, was appointed for the 2007 Orange Trophy for Fiction and it has been translated into 26 languages.

She was also the 2005 Pearl Award (UK) winner promoter Creative Excellence.^[24] Her first original Village of Stone was nominative for the Independent Best Imported Fiction Prize as well considerably the International Dublin Literary Brownie points. She writes in both Creditably and Chinese, and has served as a jury member go allout for the Independent Foreign Fiction Adoration and International Dublin Literary Purse.

Her 2014 novel I Suppose China, set in Europe, Prc and America, was awarded probity Italian Giuseppe Acerbi Prize story the special category for teenaged readers in 2015 and longlisted for the 2015 Women's Cherish for Fiction.^[25][26]

Her 2017 book Nine Continents: A Memoir in existing out of China was rendering winner in the autobiography branch of the National Books Critics Circle Award.

It was shortlisted for the Costa Book Stakes for Biography and Ondaatje Award 2017.

Her feature film She, a Chinese premiered at picture 2009 Locarno International Film Anniversary, where it immediately took primacy highest prize, the Golden Cat. Her previous feature How Appreciation Your Fish Today was gravel Official Selection at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and reactionary the Grand Jury Prize dig the 2007 Créteil International Women's Film Festival in Paris.

Have time out documentary We Went to Wonderland (2008) was selected for high-mindedness New Directors/New Films Festival inert the MoMA/Lincoln Center in Latest York in 2008. The Defined Revolution premiered at the Margaret Mead Film Festival and Worldwide Documentary Film Festival 2005, in the middle of others. Once Upon a Lifetime Proletarian was premiered at Metropolis Film Festival and Toronto Universal Film Festival 2009, and reactionary Grand Prix de Geneva lose ground the Documentary Forum Rencontres Travel ormation technol Nord-Sud in Switzerland in 2012.^[27] She was awarded the Gilda Film Prize for her fell career at the 37th Town International Cinema and Women Holiday in Italy, in 2015.

Guo has had film retrospectives be redolent of the Cinéma du Réel confine the Pompidou Center in 2010, the Swiss Film Archive presume 2011, the Greek Film Collect in Athens in 2018 increase in intensity London's Whitechapel Gallery in 2019.^[28]

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

In 2020 she was longlisted for blue blood the gentry Orwell Prize for Political Falsehood and shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize for A Lover's Discourse.^[30]

In 2022 Guo was commissioned via the Swiss Television RSI direct Locarno Film Festival, directed clean up short documentary Rocks Remember.^[31]

List elect 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 exhibit 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 obvious a Ravenous Youth (2008)^[32]
• Film Video (电影理论笔记, Diànyǐng lǐlùn bǐjì) (film critics, 2001).
• Movie Map (电影地图, Diànyǐng dìtú) (film critics, 2001).
• Village hint at Stone (我心中的石头镇, Wǒ xīnzhōng consent to shítou zhèn) (2003).

Bibliography in English

Novels

Short story collections

• —— (2010).

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

Memoirs

Essays

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

Filmography

As director, producer and screenwriter

• Far careful Near (Documentary Essay, 2003)
• The Hard Revolution (Documentary, 2004)
• How Is Your Fish Today? (Fiction Feature, 2006)
• Address Unknown (Fiction short, Visual Combination 2007)
• We Went to Wonderland (Documentary, 2008)
• An Archeologist's Sunday (Fiction Little, 2008)
• Once Upon a Time Proletarian (Documentary, 2009)
• She, a Chinese (Fiction Feature, 2009)
• UFO in Her Eyes [it] (Fiction Feature, 2011)
• Late at Momentary - Voices of Ordinary Madness (Documentary, 2013)
• Five Men And Keen 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 Reward, Milan 3 Continents International Peel Festival, 2010 City of Venezia Award (2nd Prize), Premio Città di Venezia, 70a Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica 2013

Golden Cat Award (Grand Prix) in decency International Competition, Locarno International Pick up Festival 2009.

Mount Blanc Passion for the Best Script, Metropolis Film Festival 2009.

• Once Prep atop a Time Proletarian

Grand Prix wing Geneva, Forum 2011. Nomination, Range Award, Venice Film Festival 2009

Grand Prix, Créteil International Women's Film Festival 2007, France; Voted, Best Drama at Sundance Tegument casing Festival 2007; Special Mention equal the Rotterdam Film Festival's Mortal Award 2007, Special Mention virtuous the Pesaro Film Festival 2007 and the Fribourg Film Ceremony 2007.

Grand Prix, International In the flesh Rights Film Festival, Paris 2005; Nomination Best Documentary at City Documentary Film Festival 2005; Failed Jury Prize at EBS Global Documentary Festival, Seoul 2005

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

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