Novelist and film-maker Xiaolu Guo’s artistic career spans both China and the West. Her novels have been translated into more than twenty-six languages, and include A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction) and I Am China (longlisted for Bailey’s Women’s Fiction Prize ). In 2013 she was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. She has also directed several award-winning films, including She, a Chinese (Golden Leopard Award at the Locarno Film Festival), UFO in Her Eyes (TIFF) and Once Upon a Time Proletarian (Venice Film Festival). Guo currently lives in London and Berlin and was a guest of the DAAD Artists in Residence in Berlin in 2012. Her novelistic memoir Once Upon a Time in the East (Grove Atlantic) will be out in 2017.