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Xiaolu Guo è una scrittrice e regista cinese.



Grande sostenitrice della poesia non solo come semplice forma di scrittura ma come modo di approcciarsi alla vita, comincia la sua carriera di scrittrice a 15 anni, quando viene pubblicato il suo primo libro.

Seguono altri scritti e raccolte di poesie, fino a quando incomincia a farsi conoscere da critica e pubblico per libri come Village of Stone e Piccolo dizionario cinese-inglese per innamorati .

Oltre alla scrittura si interessa anche di cinema creando piccoli cortometraggi e veri e propri film, tra i quali How is your fish today? e She, a Chinese , quest'ultimo vincitore del Pardo d'Oro al festival di Locarno.

Attualmente continua a scrivere e tiene conferenze in Europa, Stati Uniti ed Asia. Wikipedia  

✵ 1973
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Xiaolu Guo: Frasi in inglese

“State censorship was an obvious assault on our creativity, but few Chinese writers actually acknowledge the serious and endemic issue of self-censorship. For me it was as clear as the operation of the state's apparatus – without self-censorship an artist in China would get nowhere and had no voice.”

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Xiaolu Guo

Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up, Chatto & Windus, 2017, page 259 (ISBN 9781784740689).
Memoir, 2017

“I Am China is a parallel story about two Chinese lovers in exile – the external and internal exile that I had felt since leaving China.”

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Xiaolu Guo

Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up, Chatto & Windus, 2017, page 269 (ISBN 9781784740689).
Memoir, 2017

“I could only see myself making a living through writing, as I had done in China. But should I write in Chinese here, a foreign land, or enrol in a language class and study English grammar? If I continued to write in Chinese I would have no readers here. Besides, I would never create a community of fellow artists and thinkers in my Western life while speaking Chinese.”

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Xiaolu Guo

Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up, Chatto & Windus, 2017, page 259 (ISBN 9781784740689).
Memoir, 2017

“My growing environmental awareness only added more fuel to the argument for having no children. And the logic of never-ending consumption didn't just harm the environment, it killed people too.”

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Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up, Chatto & Windus, 2017, page 305 (ISBN 9781784740689).
Memoir, 2017

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