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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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From the International Literary Festival in Beijing, travel and voice - Eleanor Wachtel leads a discussion about the writer's role across languages and cultures or...
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Chan Koonchung is a Beijing-based public intellectual and a well-known figure in the wider Chinese media, as a writer, editor, publisher, film producer, and co-founder...
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Adrienne Rich American poet Adrienne Rich died on March 27, 2012. She was 82 years old. Eleanor Wachtel spoke with her in 1994. Here...
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From England, a surprising and quite brilliant novelist, Edward St Aubyn. He's transformed his own painful upbringing into remarkably entertaining fiction. After his father...
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Broadcast February 19 - March 18, 2012 An invitation to the 2012 Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka created an opportunity for Eleanor Wachtel to...
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