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Xiaolu Guo was born 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 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 shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, and 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth, published in 2008, was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. Xiaolu's film career continues to flourish; her feature, She, A Chinese, was released in 2009 and her documentary Once Upon a Time Proletarian has been screened at international film festivals such as Venice and Toronto Film Festivals. I Am China is her most recent novel. In 2013 she was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.
Heart-wrenching… An extraordinary and important book -- Charlie Cooper * Independent * Beautifully written… Genuinely affecting… Exceptional * Scotland on Sunday * An ambitious, thought-provoking and engaging narrative -- Jane Shilling * Evening Standard * Beautifully rendered * New York Times * Beautifully done -- Viv Groskop * Red * Piercingly urgent and revelatory * Independent i * I Am China is a moving tale of life and fate, love and loss, that will stay with the reader long after the last page * New Internationalist * Dark, witty fiction -- David Evans * Financial Times * Cleverly crafted * UK Press Syndication *
