Xiaolu Guo

12 Podcast Episodes

On Unclassifiable Books and Uncategorisable Lives, with Xiaolu Guo

On Unclassifiable Books and Uncategorisable Lives, with Xiaolu Guo

Like all of Xiaolu Guo’s work RADICAL is difficult to describe because it’s difficult to categorise. It might be called ... Read more

4 May 2023

38mins

Once Upon a Time in the East - with Xiaolu Guo

Once Upon a Time in the East - with Xiaolu Guo

An interview with the British/Chinese writer, diarist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo. From her upbringing in a small fishing v... Read more

10 Jul 2022

50mins

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Hay Festival: Joyce and Ulysses with Adam Biles, Sinéad Gleeson, Xiaolu Guo, and John Mitchinson

Hay Festival: Joyce and Ulysses with Adam Biles, Sinéad Gleeson, Xiaolu Guo, and John Mitchinson

Recorded at Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye,  Tuesday 31 May 2022“Ulysses is going to make my place famous,” Sylvia Beach wrote... Read more

20 fragments of a ravenous youth by Xiaolu Guo

20 fragments of a ravenous youth by Xiaolu Guo

A book written by a native Mandarin speaking author about a protagonist who sets off from her village in China for the b... Read more

7 Apr 2022

18mins

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** Valentine's Special ** Love, Language and London with Xiaolu Guo

** Valentine's Special ** Love, Language and London with Xiaolu Guo

For the Valentine’s week episode of our podcast, we were joined by Xiaolu Guo to discuss her intense, fragmentary medita... Read more

10 Feb 2022

47mins

** Valentine's Special ** Xiaolu Guo on A Lover's Discourse

** Valentine's Special ** Xiaolu Guo on A Lover's Discourse

For the Valentine’s week episode of our podcast, we were joined by Xiaolu Guo to discuss her intense, fragmentary medita... Read more

10 Feb 2022

47mins

Isolationcast #22: Xiaolu Guo

Isolationcast #22: Xiaolu Guo

My guest today has had the most phenomenal life. Xiaolu Guo was born in a fishing village in the south of China. She gre... Read more

23 Aug 2020

39mins

Xiaolu Guo, Belarus Free Theatre, Blindness, The Leach Pottery

Xiaolu Guo, Belarus Free Theatre, Blindness, The Leach Pottery

Xiaolu Guo was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 2013. She talks about her latest book A Lover’s ... Read more

10 Aug 2020

28mins

An interview with Xiaolu Guo

An interview with Xiaolu Guo

Chinese-British novelist, memoirist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo (b. 1973) talks to Tom Overton about her life in the UK and... Read more

14 May 2019

1hr

Xiaolu Guo: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 53

Xiaolu Guo: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 53

Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring you an interview with Xiao... Read more

13 May 2013

31mins

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