Guo Xiaolu

郭小橹

Guo Xiaolu, a London-based writer and filmmaker, has published six books in her native China. Her films include the documentary Concrete Revolution and the feature How is Your Fish Today? The English language translation of her second novel, Village of Stone, was short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2004-2005. Her most recent book, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (written in English) was nominated for the Orange Prize.

Works by Guo Xiaolu
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, published by Anchor in June, 2008
20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth, published by Chatto & Windus in January, 2008
Village of Stone, published by Chatto & Windus in May, 2004
Wo Xin'ai Zhong de Shitouzhen (我心爱中的石头镇)
lit. "My Beloved Shitouzhen", currently untranslated