Xiaolu Guo

Clever, brilliant and combative: 42-year-old Chinese Xiaolu Guo is a shooting star - and in two artistic genres at once! She is not only a celebrated bestselling author, but also an extremely successful filmmaker. As a director she won the main prize at the Locarno Film Festival (Golden Leopard, 2009).

At the Old Botanical Garden, she presents her latest novel, I Am China, where, full of power, anger and devotion, she traces the arc from modern-day China to Europe and tells a story that touches us all.