Xiaolu Guo is a British/Chinese novelist, essayist, and filmmaker. She currently holds a position as Writer-In-Residence at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and is an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University. Her work includes the novels A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist), and I Am China (a 2014 NPR Best Book), the memoir Nine Continents, as well as the feature films How Is Your Fish Today and UFO In Her Eyes and documentaries We Went to Wonderland and Five Men and A Caravaggio.

Guo to discuss her approach to storytelling, to self-translating and her thoughts on formal translations of her work, as well as where to find "home" in this globalized world. Watch the video here.

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