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British Chinese author Xiaolu Guo on Walt Whitman during British Library talk 2023 in London

Xiaolu Guo is a Chinese-born British novelist. She published six books before moving to the UK in 2002, where in 2013 she was named as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. Her books include: Village of Stone, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and I Am China. Her memoir Once Upon a Time in the East won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018. It was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Her most recent novel A Lover's Discourse was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020. Xiaolu directed several award-winning films including She, A Chinese, and documentaries about China and Britain. She was a judge for the Booker Prize in 2019, and is currently a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York. She talks about her new book Radical: A Life of My Own with writer and translator Lauren Elkin. In this clip, she mentions the time she had met a homeless man on the street, who became her friend over their shared love of Walt Whitman. Read the rest about what she said: https://howtobe247.com/2023/04/15/xia... Subscribe for all the amazing book content on the YouTube channel:    / @howtobe247bookspodcast   Find all the latest: https://www.howtobe247.com Subscribe to the podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/how-to-be FOLLOW ON SOCIALS: Twitter:   / howtobe247   Facebook:   / howtobe247   Instagram:   / howtobe247   TikTok:   / howtobe247