Coming Up on Writers & Company

Spring Schedule

John le Carré and Eleanor Wachtel at their first meeting in 2010

John le Carré and Eleanor Wachtel at their first meeting in 2010

Our spring season features the best work from both new and familiar voices. You'll find a wide range of stories, ideas, and perspectives from our remarkable guests.

 

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Lydia Davis Interview

Lydia Davis Interview
We're very happy for Lydia Davis, who has won the fifth International Man Booker Prize.  Here's our conversation with her from June 10, 2007.

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Colm Toibin Interview

Colm Toibin Interview

Irish 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

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Kate Atkinson Interview

Kate Atkinson Interview

Kate Atkinson spoke with Eleanor 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 Life.

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Greece: The Unfolding Drama

Greece:  The Unfolding Drama
Greece:  The Unfolding Drama

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Eleanor's travel blog: Greece (5-part series airing 7 April - 5 May 2013)

Eleanor's travel blog: Greece (5-part series airing 7 April - 5 May 2013)
Eleanor Wachtel travelled to Greece in March to meet with some of the country's most prominent thinkers and authors as part of a special series about the complex and challenging situation there. The series aired April 7 to May 5

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Gazmend Kapllani Interview

Gazmend Kapllani Interview
We wrap up our series Greece: The Unfolding Drama with the Albanian-Greek writer, Gazmend Kapllani.  Before the economic crisis (and possibly also racism) cost him his job, he was the only immigrant journalist writing columns in the big Greek dailies.

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Jenny Mastoraki, Costa Gavras Interviews

Jenny Mastoraki, Costa Gavras Interviews
Our Greek series continues with poet, Jenny Mastoraki.  She came of age during the military dictatorship, and found her voice in an age when words were considered dangerous.  Also, Greek born filmmaker, Costa Gavras.

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Nick Papandreou Interview

Nick Papandreou Interview

Our 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.

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Petros Markaris Interview

Petros Markaris Interview
Petros 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.

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Yanis Varoufakis Interview

Yanis Varoufakis Interview

This 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.

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