This week, the Booker Prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and Oscar-winning screenwriter, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. From Heat and Dust to The Remains of the Day; from Room With a View to The Golden Bowl, her collaboration with Merchant-Ivory Productions began in 1963.

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Eleanor Wachtel spoke with the acclaimed literary scholar Paul Fussell in 1997 as part of our series on "War and Remembrance". He was a professor famous for his actue analyses of both world wars and the ways they've been mythologized.  Fussell won a National Book Award in 1976 for The Great War and Modern Memory.  He died on May 23, 2012 at the age of 88. 

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On November 1, 1998 we aired an interview with the American novliest and short-story writer, James Salter. The PEN/Faulkner Foundation announced on Monday, 21 May 2012 that the 86-year-old Salter has won the 25th annual PEN/Malamud Award.

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The man hailed as Mexico`s most gifted - and certainly most famous- story teller, Carlos Fuentes. He died earlier this week at age 83. Eleanor Wachtel's 2005 conversation with him was recorded onstage at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival.

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Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the Nobel Prize winning novelist, Toni Morrison. The New York Times described Morrison as "the nearest thing America has to a national novelist." Now, the author of Beloved, Jazz, Paradise and Love has a brand new novel called simply, Home.

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Eleanor Wachtel speaks with critically acclaimed Colombian writer, Juan Gabriel Vasquez. Mario Vargas Llosa describes him as "one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature."

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Joyce Carol Oates was the winner of this year's Blue Metropolis Grand Prix. The prolific American writer in an onstage conversation with Eleanor Wachtel, recorded in Montreal. Joyce Carol Oates's newest novel is called "Mudwoman".

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Edith Wharton was one of the great American novelists of the early 20th century. She was born into a wealthy New York family 150 years ago, in 1862, during the American Civil War. Eleanor Wachtel speaks with biographer Hermione Lee about the life and work of this exemplar of New York's "Gilded Age."

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Tessa Hadley has had almost as many short stories published in the New Yorker in the last ten years as her hero, Alice Munro. Her first novel, Accidents in the Home was described by England's Guardian newspaper as "Fantastically subtle, absorbing and delightful. This is prose to die for." Now Tessa Hadley has written a novel called The London Train.

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