Geoff Dyer on Xiaolu Guo's A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers

About this episode

Geoff Dyer discusses Xiaolu Guo's A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers with Michael Kelleher.

To kick off our Winter Mini-season for 2026, Geoff Dyer (recipient of a 2015 Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction) joins Prize Director Michael Kelleher for a conversation about Xiaolu Guo's riotous and moving A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers . Geoff Dyer is the author, most recently , of Homework: A Memoir as well as four novels and many other non-fiction works. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography’s 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ’s Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and was a finalist in 1998. In 2015 he received a Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

People in this episode

Host: Michael Kelleher

Guest: Geoff Dyer

Topics covered

• literature
• memoir
• nonfiction
• cultural exchange
• language

Keywords

• Geoff Dyer
• Xiaolu Guo
• A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
• Windham-Campbell Prize
• literature
• memoir

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Windham-Campbell Prizes, University of Southern California

Books & works: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

Places: Los Angeles

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