British-Chinese author Xialou Guo, who was selected by Granta Magazine as one of Britain’s best young novelists and was recently shortlisted for the Orange Prize, criticized American literature and also expressed concern that literature has become too ‘storytelling-driven.’ ‘All the poetry, all the alternative things, have been pushed away by mainstream society,’ she said: CSM
British-Chinese author Xialou Guo recently commented on the dominance of Anglophone novels in the international book market during the Jaipur Literature Festival in India this weekend. The session on “the global novel” featured six international panelists, including American writers Maaza Mengiste, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Jonathan Franzen.
Guo, who was selected by Granta Magazine as one of the best young British novelists and was recently shortlisted for the Orange Prize, criticized the way “our reading habit has totally been transformed by the mainstream.”
