Kick-off Event spring term 2018
Our guest professor Xiaolu Guo will be introduced by professor Oliver Lubrich, answering questions about her artistic work and plans in Bern.
Xiaolu Guo
Xiaolu Guo, born 1973 in the south of China, studied at the Beijing Film Academy and later at the National Film and TV School in London, where she has been living and working since 2002. Before her breakthrough as a novelist, Xiaolu Guo gained recognition with her documentary and short films. Her eighth film, She, a Chinese was awarded the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2009.
Also as a writer Guo is internationally successful: In her debut novel Village of Stone (2005) Guo tells the story of a young woman in Beijing who is torn between cultural traditions and the wish for a new life. Later, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2008), UFO in Her Eyes (2009) and I am China (2015) followed. Her latest book, the autobiography Once Upon A Time in the East (2017) was published last year. Xiaolu Guo writes in English and Chinese, her texts have been translated into 27 languages.
The public kick-off event of the Friedrich Dürrenmatt Guest Professorship for World Literature will take place on 13th March (6.30 p.m.) at the Hallersaal of the Burgerbibliothek Bern.
