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Xiaolu Guo: AI-esque
Venue
Purcell Room (at Southbank Centre)
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XX, UK
What's on at Purcell Room (at Southbank Centre) →Date(s) / Time(s)
Date(s): 01/11/2026
Time(s): 19:45
About
The novelist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo delivers the 2026 New Statesman/Goldsmiths Prize Lecture, a personal manifesto on writing fiction in the age of AI. She argues that a novel is a living record of experience, and that machines can mimic voices but cannot inhabit them.