Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo was born in a fishing village in the south of China in 1973. She was awarded an MA in Film from the Beijing Film Academy in 2000 and has worked as a novelist, essayist, screenwriter and filmmaker. Having studied documentary film at the National Film and Television School in London, she now lives in Berkshire and is working on a new novel. Village of Stone was published by Chatto last year, and has been shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. 

''What could have been a story of misery had the mysterious charm of a fairy tale or legend. Reading it is rather like finding yourself in a dream, ONCE UPON A TIME...I think people are going to like this very much.'' Doris Lessing, on Village of Stone.

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