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Xiaolu Guo was born in a fishing village in south China. She studied film at the Beijing Film Academy and published six books in China before she moved to London in 2002. The English translation of Village of Stone (Chatto, 2004) was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her first novel written in English, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers was published by Chatto in 2007 and shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Xiaolu's film career continues to flourish; in 2007, she was Cannes Film Festival Cinefondation resident, based in Paris.
The novel resonates in revelations of loss and pain * Guardian * Sprightly... the comedy is neatly poised... a damning portrait of totalitarian China * Scotland on Sunday * A breath of the freshest air imaginable. She cuts through the smog of hype and platitude -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent * A fast moving, barbed polemic...a sharp little book in which the legacy of the Cultural Revolution shimmers and festers... A writer to read, a writer who makes every word count * Irish Times * Guo's humour is bracingly ironic and tinderbox dry * The Times *
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