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ABOUT THE<br />

WRITERS<br />

We were delighted to work with five Writers in Residence for<br />

Weather Stations. This inspirational group of writers were<br />

chosen for their talent, style and commitment to creating a<br />

more sustainable future:<br />

Xiaolu Guo at Free Word, London<br />

One of Granta’s Best of British writers under<br />

40, Xiaolu Guo is profound, incisive, funny and<br />

often disturbingly accurate.<br />

Guo is author of I Am China, A Concise<br />

Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers,<br />

nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction,<br />

and Writer and Director of UFO in Her Eyes,<br />

which won the ‘City of Venice’ prize at the<br />

Venice Film Festival.<br />

Mirko Bonné at internationales<br />

literaturfestival berlin<br />

Mirko Bonné, born 1965 in Tegernsee, lives<br />

in Hamburg. Besides translations of, among<br />

others, Sherwood Anderson, Robert Creeley,<br />

E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, John Keats,<br />

Grace Paley and William Butler Yeats, he has<br />

published five novels, five volumes of poetry,<br />

and a book of travel journals and essays.<br />

For his work Bonné received many awards,<br />

ABOUT THE WRITERS<br />

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