Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo (Simplified Chinese: 郭小櫓 pinyin:guō xiǎo lǔ, born 1973) is a Chinese novelist and filmmaker. She utilizes various media, including film and writing, to tell stories of alienation, introspection and tragedy, and to explore China’s past, present and future in an increasingly connected world.

Her novel A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers was nominated for the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction. She was also the 2005 Pearl Award (UK) winner for Creative Excellence.

Books in order of publication:

Novels

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (hardcover 1st ed.). London: Chatto & Windus. – 2007

20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth (hardcover 1st ed.). London: Chatto & Windus. – 2008

UFO in Her Eyes (hardcover 1st ed.). London: Chatto & Windus. – 2009

I Am China (hardcover 1st ed.). London: Chatto & Windus. – 2014

A Lover’s Discourse (hardcover 1st ed.). London: Chatto & Windus. – 2020

Short story collections

Lovers in the Age of Indifference (paperback ed.). London: Chatto & Windus. – 2010

Call Me Ishmaelle – 2026

Memoirs

First memoir:

Nine Continents: A Memoir in and out of China (hardcover 1st ed.). New York: Grove Press. 2017

Second memoir:

Radical (hardcover 1st ed.). New York: Grove Press.  2023

Third memoir:

My Battle of Hastings (hardcover 1st ed.). London: Chatto & Windus. 2024