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Writers and Company | Sep 5, 2012 | 51:56
Mohsin Hamid on "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"
Our 4 November 2007 with Mohsin Hamid about his novel, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist".
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May 19, 2013 | 52:53Writers and Company Colm Toibin Interview AudioWriters and Company Colm Toibin Interview May 19, 2013 | 52:53Irish writer Colm Toibin was this year's grand prize winner at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal. His latest, “The Testament of Mary” takes place twenty years after Jesus’s death.
May 12, 2013 | 51:48Writers and Company Kate Atkinson Interview AudioWriters and Company Kate Atkinson Interview May 12, 2013 | 51:48Kate Atkinson spoke with Eleanor Wachtel onstage at Harbourfront in Toronto. Atkinson’s first Jackson Brodie novel was described by Stephen King as the best mystery of the decade. Her latest wonderful novel (not a Brodie mystery) is called "Life after L
May 5, 2013 | 51:38Writers and Company Gazmend Kapllani Interview AudioWriters and Company Gazmend Kapllani Interview May 5, 2013 | 51:38We wrap up our series “Greece: The Unfolding Drama”, with the Albanian-Greek writer, Gazmend Kapllani. Before the economic crisis (and possibly racism) cost him his job, he was the only immigrant journalist writing columns in the big Greek dailies.
Apr 28, 2013 | 51:26Writers and Company Jenny Mastoraki, Costa Gavras Interviews AudioWriters and Company Jenny Mastoraki, Costa Gavras Interviews Apr 28, 2013 | 51:26Our Greek series continues with poet Jenny Mastoraki. She came of age during the military dictatorship, and found her voice at a time when words were considered dangerous. Also, Greek born filmmaker Costa Gavras.
Apr 21, 2013 | 51:48Writers and Company Nick Papandreou Interview AudioWriters and Company Nick Papandreou Interview Apr 21, 2013 | 51:48Our series ‘Greece: ‘The Unfolding Drama’ continues with Nick Papandreou, son of the late Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou - and grandson and brother to two other Greek Prime Ministers.
Apr 14, 2013 | 51:47Writers and Company Petros Markaris Interview AudioWriters and Company Petros Markaris Interview Apr 14, 2013 | 51:47Petros Markaris is a popular crime writer, but he's also a respected playwright, translator and screenwriter. Our conversation with him is the second in our 5-part series, “Greece: The Unfolding Drama”.
Apr 7, 2013 | 52:31Writers and Company Yanis Varoufakis Interview AudioWriters and Company Yanis Varoufakis Interview Apr 7, 2013 | 52:31This week, the launch of a new series, 'Greece: The Unfolding Drama'; from classical mythology to the weakest link in the European Union. To start, Yanis Varoufakis, respected political economist, and author of "The Global Minotaur".
Mar 31, 2013 | 52:25Writers and Company Marisa Silver Interview AudioWriters and Company Marisa Silver Interview Mar 31, 2013 | 52:25American novelist and short story writer Marisa Silver was inspired by an iconic 1936 image of a migrant mother. She re-imagines the lives of the photographer and her subject in her new novel, "Mary Coin".
Mar 24, 2013 | 51:54Writers and Company Michel Tremblay Encore AudioWriters and Company Michel Tremblay Encore Mar 24, 2013 | 51:54This week, our 2003 conversation with one of Quebec's most influential writers, Michel Tremblay. In a career spanning over 40 years, he's written a cycle of plays, a sextet of novels, a trilogy of memoirs, translations, song lyrics, and much more.
Mar 22, 2013 | 54:32Writers and Company Chinua Achebe Encore AudioWriters and Company Chinua Achebe Encore Mar 22, 2013 | 54:32Sadly, Chinua Achebe, the internationally celebrated Nigerian author, has died following a brief illness. He was 82. Eleanor Wachtel spoke with him in 1994, and we re-aired that interview when Achebe won the Man Booker Prize in 2007.
Mar 17, 2013 | 52:45Writers and Company Paula Fox Encore AudioWriters and Company Paula Fox Encore Mar 17, 2013 | 52:45American novelist and children's book author, Paula Fox, talks about her own extraordinary childhood in her 2001 memoir, "Borrowed Finery".
Mar 10, 2013 | 53:02Writers and Company Margaret Drabble and Michael Holroyd Encore AudioWriters and Company Margaret Drabble and Michael Holroyd Encore Mar 10, 2013 | 53:02This week, families and memoir - or is it fiction? An encore presentation of Eleanor Wachtel's 2001 conversation with the popular English novelist, Margaret Drabble, and her husband, the biographer, Michael Holroyd, about memoir, biography and putting their lives on the page.
Mar 3, 2013 | 52:52Writers and Company George Saunders Interview AudioWriters and Company George Saunders Interview Mar 3, 2013 | 52:52A conversation with the American writer George Saunders. When Saunders won a MacArthur "genius grant" - half a million dollars, no strings - they talked about how he brings "a sense of humour, pathos and literary style all his own" to contemporary American fiction. He's an original.
Feb 24, 2013 | 52:31Writers and Company Tarun Tejpal Interview AudioWriters and Company Tarun Tejpal Interview Feb 24, 2013 | 52:31The conclusion of our series "Making Waves: Voices from the Jaipur Festival" with Tarun Tejpal, one of India's most respected journalists and novelists.
Feb 17, 2013 | 52:35Writers and Company Fahmida Riaz Interview AudioWriters and Company Fahmida Riaz Interview Feb 17, 2013 | 52:35A conversation with one of Pakistan's leading Urdu poets, Fahmida Riaz. From early in her career, her bold poetic expression has captured attention for its feminist voice and powerful use of language.
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