Language, Memory, Vision

Speaker: Xiaolu Guo

Moderator: Nancy Seidler

BIO

Xiaolu Guo is a Chinese British novelist, memoirist and filmmaker. Her novels include A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, and I Am China. Her memoir Nine Continents won the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017 and shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Costa Award. Her recent novel A Lover’s Discourse, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020 and longlisted for the Orwell Prize. Radical is published by Chatto 2023. Named as a Granta’s Best of Young British Novelist in 2013, she also directed a dozen films, includingHow Is Your Fish Today (Sundance Official Selection) and UFO In Her Eyes (TIFF). Her feature She, A Chinese received the Golden Leopard Award at the Locarno Festival 2009. Her documentary We Went to Wonderland was in the Official Selection of ND/NF at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Once Upon A Time Proletarian was selected for the Horizon Section at Venice Film Festival 2009. She had her film retrospectives at London’s Whitechapel Gallery 2019 and Cinematheque Switzerland 2011, as we as at the Greek Film Archive in Athens 2018.She was a 2021 visiting professor at Columbia University and Baruch College in New York.Guo is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

The Venue

Language, Memory, Vision

Pratt Film and Video Screening Room

550 Mrytle Ave., Brooklyn NY 11205

September 20, 2023

Wednesday 5:00pm - 6:30pm

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