The Chinese-born British writer will be a visiting professor at Freie Universität Berlin
The award-winning Chinese-British author and film director Xiaolu Guo will hold the Samuel Fischer Visiting Professorship at the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature, Freie Universität Berlin, over the 2022/2023 winter semester. She will be teaching a seminar called "Translating the East," which explores how Western readers can gain a more profound understanding of East Asian literature, and how migration and multilingualism have impacted the practice of literary translation from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese into English and other Western languages.
Xiaolu Guo was born in China in 1973 and grew up in a small village in the province of Zhejiang. ...
