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"MY BATTLE OF HASTINGS"
2024

 

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"RADICAL - A LIFE OF MY OWN"
2023

LAUNCH 13 APRIL 2023,

BRITISH LIBRARY, LONDON

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"A LOVER'S DISCOURSE"
Novel - 2020

Shortlisted for the Goldsmith Prize 2020
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2021

PUBLICATION DATES

sdaUK : Penguin Random House - May 2020
sdaUS : Grove Atlantic - Oct 2020
sdaGermany : Penguin Knaus - 5 October 2022

 

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"NINE CONTINENTS" (US title)
"ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE EAST" (UK title)ss
MEMOIR - 2017


PUBLICATION DATES

sdaUK : Chatto & Windus - Jan 2017
sdaUS : Grove Atlantic - Sept 2017
sdaGermany : Knaus - Sept 2017
sdaItaly: Metropoli d'Asia - Sept 2017
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"I AM CHINA" ss NOVEL - 2014

PUBLICATION DATES

sdaUK : Chatto & Windus - June 2014
sdaUS : Nan Talese / Doubleday - Sept 2014
sdaGermany : Knaus - Sept 2014
sdaItaly: Metropoli d'Asia - Nov 2014
sda Spain : Destinos - Nov 2014
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sd aDenmark : Rosenkilde & Bahnhof - 2015
sd aBrazil : Editora Objectiva - 2015
sd aCzech - Dobrovský - Jan 2016


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"LOVERS IN THE AGE OF INDIFFERENCE"
Short stories collection

For the last 10 years, on the journey from east to west, from country to country, these stories have embedded themselves in my body.

Publication UK : 26 January 2010 - Chatto & Windus / Random House

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"UFO IN HER EYES "

«The new moon was rising from the east, I saw my reflection in the water. A breeze came and broke my image, then it formed back slowly. I realized I was indeed leaving this place, and I started to cry.»


UK - January 2009 - Chatto & Windus / Random House
Germany - June 2009 - Knaus

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"20 FRAGMENTS OF A RAVENOUS YOUTH "

«A wounded body is when, after leaving a man you've lived with for three years, you curl up on your side of the bed as if there's still somebody there. That is a wounded body. Habit keeps you giving space to another body,
where there is only emptiness.
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UK - January 2008 - Chatto & Windus / Random House
USA - August 2008 - Nan A. Talese / Doubleday

France - Février 2009 - Buchet Chastel

Italy: Metropoli d'Asia - May 2015

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"A CONCISE CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY FOR LOVERS"

«we see each other naked, without distance»

Shortlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction 2007

Hardback published in the UK in february 2007 by Chatto & Windus
and in the US in September 2007 by Nan A. Talese
UK Paperback by Vintage, jan 2008

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"VILLAGE OF STONE" - 2004
Novel, Vintage Paperback - see here


Shortlisted for The Independent "Best Foreign Fiction Prize" 2005
Nominated for Dublin International
Literature Award (IMPAC) 2006


From "Village of Stone"

Interview "My Secret Life as Coral"
Reviews of "Village of Stone"



Translations :

Originally published In Chinese By Shanghai Literature & Art Publishing House, 2003
In English by Chatto & Windus, 2004
In French (la ville de pierre) by Editions Philippe Picquier, 2004 - voir ici
In Dutch (dorp van steen) by Mouria, February 2004
in German (Stadt der Steine) by Knaus, 2004 - siehe hier
in Portuguese (aldeia de pedra) by Quetzal, 2004
in Polish ( Kamienna Wioska) by Muza, 2006



 

 
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"FENFANG'S 37.2 DEGREES "

novel (Chinese), Shanxi People's Publishing House, 2000

 
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"WHO IS MY MOTHER'S BOYFRIEND"
my collected film scripts (Chinese), China Film Press, 1999

about "who is my mother's boyfriend"

 
  Essays and Collections (in Chinese & English)top
   

"MEMORIES OF AN ISLAND"
2015

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"WAITING FOR THE SECOND RENAISSANCE"
Octobre 2014

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"FIVE SONGS"
April 2013

Written as Xiaolu is named as one of
Granta Magazine's "Best of young British Novelists"

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"BEYOND DISSIDENCE"
December 2012

About Mo Yan's Literature Nobel Prizel

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"NOTES TOWARDS A METAPHYSICAL CINEMA MANIFESTO "
March 2010

First presented at Cinéma du Réel Festival, Paris 2010

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"FURTHER NOTES TOWARDS A METAPHYSICAL CINEMA MANIFESTO "
July 2010

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"A SOUL IN SAKHALIN "
Short Story, read by Xiaolu Guo, Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 (The Essay), January 2010

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"IDENTITY"
essay, the Independent, London, 10 May 2008

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"NOTES ON MOVIE THEORY"
collected essays on film theory (Chinese), China Film Press, 2002

about "notes on movie theory"
 
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"FLYING IN MY DREAMS"
collected essays (Chinese), Shanxi People's Publishing House, 2000

about "flying in my dreams"
 
 
"MOVIE MAP"
collected essays on film (Chinese), Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, 2001

about "Movie Map"
 
 
"CINEMA AND ADAM'S RIB"
essay, 1999

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"BLINDNESS"
2004

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"FATHER"
2002

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"NOTES"
2004

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"SCENERY"
2003


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"KEW GARDEN"
2002


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"DEAR"
2003


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"MEDICINE"
2002


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"LOVE AND MIDDLE CLASS LIFE"
2001


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