Guo Xiaolu

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Guo Xiaolu, 2008

Guo Xiaolu ( Chinese  郭小 櫓 , Pinyin Guō Xiǎolǔ ; * 1973 ) is a Chinese director and writer . From 2002 she lived mainly in London . After eight literary works (novels, short stories and writings on film theory), she published four further novels and a volume of short stories in English. In addition to her work as a writer, she has directed some of the award-winning documentaries and feature films.

Life

Guo grew up in a fishing village in southern China . Her father, a painter, was imprisoned for ten years during her childhood. At the age of 20 she was accepted at the Beijing Film Academy , but was unable to make her own film during her studies there because of the severe censorship. Since she was a student she published her own texts, for example in 1999 Who is my mother's boyfriend? .

In London, where she has lived since 2002, she shot the short film Far and Near in a few weeks in 2003 , followed by The Concrete Revolution in 2004, How Is Your Fish Today? 2006 and We Went to Wonderland 2008. One of her greatest successes to date followed a year later when she won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival for She, a Chinese (2009). The drama tells of the unsuccessful integration attempt by a young Chinese woman who emigrates to Great Britain. In “Ich bin China” she tells of the role of the artist in a world torn apart by ideological struggles.

In 2012 she was a scholarship holder of the DAAD's Berlin artist program. From June to November 2015 Xiaolu Guo was Writer in Residence at the Literaturhaus Zürich and the PWG Foundation in Zürich.

In spring 2018 she held the Friedrich Dürrenmatt guest professorship for world literature at the University of Bern .

Awards

  • 2009: Golden Leopard , Locarno Film Festival (She, a Chinese)
  • 2013: Inclusion in Granta's list of Best Young British Novelists

Works (selection)

  • Who is my mother's boyfriend? (我 妈妈 的 男朋友 是 谁？ Where mama de nanpengyou shi shei?) (1999)
  • Village of Stone (我 心中 的 石头 镇 Wo xinzhong de shitou zhen) .
  • A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers . Chatto & Windus, London 2007.
    • Little dictionary for lovers . Translation from English by Anne Rademacher. Knaus Verlag, 2003 ISBN 978-3-8135-0304-3 .
  • 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth . Chatto & Windus, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-7011-8155-0 .
  • UFO in Her Eyes . 2009.
    • A UFO, she thought . Translation from English by Anne Rademacher: Knaus Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8135-0353-1 .
  • Lovers in the Age of Indifference . Vintage, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-7011-8483-4 .
  • I am China . Chatto & Windus, London, 2014.
  • Once Upon a Time in the East. A story of growing up . Chatto & Windus, London, 2017, ISBN 978-1784740689

Filmography

  • 2002: Far and Near (documentary)
  • 2003: The Concrete Revolution (documentary)
  • 2004: How Is Your Fish Today
  • 2008: We Went To Wonderland (documentary)
  • 2009: Once Upon A Time Proletarian (documentary)
  • 2009: She, a Chinese
  • 2010: An Archeologist's Sunday
  • 2011: UFO in her eyes
  • 2012: Late At Night: Voices of Ordinary Madness (documentary)

Web links

Commons : Guo Xiaolu  - Collection of Images

Individual references, sources

  1. ↑ cf. Golden Leopard for "She, a Chinese" at focus.de, August 16, 2009 (accessed on August 17, 2009)
  2. ↑ a b Martin Ebel: Nothing can stop them. Tages-Anzeiger, May 1, 2015, accessed July 26, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Xiaolu Guo. January 22, 2018, accessed August 3, 2020 .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Guo is the family name here, Xiaolu is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Guo, Xiaolu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guō, Xiǎolǔ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese writer and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1973