A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers 采用字典体，以女主角 Z 的视点出发，意使用不合语法的英语，讲述 Z 从刚到英国开始学习英语、到结识她的英国情人、最后分手国的过程。郭小橹过去曾出版过电影理论书籍和小说，她的小说《石头村》曾被翻译成英语出版Village of Stone)。目前她常年在中国和欧洲间写作，同时拍摄纪录片。

Orange Broadband Prize 是英国唯一一个专门奖励女作家的文学奖，不限国籍，只要是使用英语写作即可参选。本年度他们还打破了一个英国文学奖多年来不成文的规矩，即各奖项不会选择已经在其它评奖中获奖或提名的小说，选了已获得另一个重要文学，Booker Prize 的女作家 Kiran Desai的小说 The Inheritance of Loss。本年度结果将在4月17日公布，奖金为3万英镑。

候选名单：

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Fourth Estate)
Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan (Bloomsbury)
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk (Faber)
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Hamish Hamilton)
Peripheral Vision by Patricia Ferguson (Solidus)
Over by Margaret Forster (Chatto & Windus)
The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger (Picador)
When to Walk by Rebecca Gowers (Canongate)
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo (Chatto & Windus)
The Observations by Jane Harris (Faber)
Carry Me Down by MJ Hyland (Canongate)
The Girls by Lori Lansens (Virago)
Alligator by Lisa Moore (Virago)
What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn (Tindal Street Press)
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney (Quercus)
Careless by Deborah Robertson (Sceptre)
Afterwards by Rachel Seiffert (Heinemann)
Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley (Faber)
Digging to America by Anne Tyler (Chatto & Windus)
The Housekeeper by Melanie Wallace (Harvill Secker) 

外部链接：
◆郭小橹主页：Xiaolu's web site
◆郭小橹电影作品
◆有关讨论：郭小橹《简明中英情人字典》