The Chinese-born writer and film-maker talks to Daniel Hahn about her life in Hastings, asking how an immigrant, an outsider and a woman can embrace local and national history.

Xiaolu Guo is author of Once upon a Time in the East; Village of Stone; A Lover's Discourse; I Am China; Lovers in the Age of Indifference; Radical: A Life of My Own; and A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers.

Born in China, Xiaolu Guo is a novelist, essayist, screenwriter and film maker. She moved to Britain in 2002, by which time she was already an established published author. In 2013, she was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.

Xiaolu Guo is 'One of the most valuable writers in the world' – Deborah Levy