Xiaolu Guo

One of Granta’s Best of British writers under 40, Xiaolu Guo is author of A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction, and Writer and Director of UFO in Her Eyes, “City of Venice” prize at the Venice Film Festival.

Long reads, Poland

Xiaolu Guo: Postcards from the Baltic Sea

Free Word’s Weather Stations writer-in-residence, Xiaolu Guo visited Poland this month. Here is her diary from the trip.

Xiaolu GuoApril 30, 2015, 2:14 pmJanuary 18, 2016

Life in Skoda’s Factory Town

Czechia, Slovakia, and some lessons learned

Czechia loses a voice, a university tries to lose its voice, and the PM voices a complaint

Abortions, amnesties and accusations: September in Czech and Slovak politics

Moving a statue the Czech way

The Future of European Gender Politics

Orbán sides with Erdoğan against the thousands of Hungarians protesting in solidarity with Rojava

Behind Viktor Orbán’s Surprise Defeat

Doomed to Failure: Orban’s neoconservative family policies in Hungary

Pockets of resistance in Orbán’s Hungary

Poland’s Changing Climate Activists

Under Attack: Reproductive Rights in Poland

Hope and Fear in LGBT Poland

Political Cynicism: The Case of Poland

Poland’s Future: A view from the countryside

Czechia, Slovakia, and some lessons learned

Abortions, amnesties and accusations: September in Czech and Slovak politics

Slovakia: Restricted cinema in the era of economic transformation

The White Dream of Marian Kotleba

Where are you going, Slovakia?

BLACK CLOUD – KYIV BIENNIAL 2019

What Europe Does Ukraine need?

Different languages and symbols but still our common fight

A New Lexicon for a New International

Against National Vigilante

Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo: Postcards from the Baltic Sea