Writers and Company
CBC
Categories: Arts
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This week, two conversations with the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir The Return. In 2011, Libyan British author Hisham Matar spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about his childhood living under Gadhafi’s dictatorship and the search for his father, a political dissident who was imprisoned. Then, from 2020, Matar reflects on his memoir The Return and his book A Month in Siena, which explores the relationship between history, art and grief. Please note: this episode contains difficult subject matter.
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492 - How Hisham Matar's writing reflects life under dictatorship and the pain of his father's abduction Sun, 24 Mar 2024
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491 - Irish writers Michael Collins, Claire Keegan, Colum McCann and Nuala O'Faolain reflect on home and away Sun, 17 Mar 2024
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490 - Catherine Lacey imagines a character without race or gender in her novel, Pew Sun, 10 Mar 2024
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489 - Martin Amis on The Zone of Interest and Primo Levi’s unshakeable influence Sun, 03 Mar 2024
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488 - James McBride on the complicated history of race in the United States Sun, 25 Feb 2024
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487 - How writer and scholar Anne Carson used elegy to piece together fragments of her late brother Sun, 18 Feb 2024
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486 - Xiaolu Guo traces her unlikely journey from a rural Chinese fishing village to life in London as a writer Sun, 11 Feb 2024
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485 - The incomparable Philip Roth: looking back on his life in fiction Sun, 04 Feb 2024
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484 - Alain Mabanckou on his profound connection to the Republic of the Congo Sun, 28 Jan 2024
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483 - The enduring magic of The Little Prince: with Stacy Schiff, Mark Osborne and Éric Dupont Sun, 21 Jan 2024
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482 - Elizabeth Jane Howard looks back on learning, love and her marriage to Kingsley Amis Sun, 14 Jan 2024
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481 - How fighting for Indigenous rights shaped Alexis Wright as a storyteller Sun, 07 Jan 2024
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480 - Dionne Brand, Margaret Drabble, Deborah Eisenberg & Andrew O'Hagan reflect on life and writing Sun, 31 Dec 2023
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479 - Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney on the place of politics in poetry Sun, 24 Dec 2023
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478 - How writing helped Lore Segal survive a traumatic wartime childhood Sun, 17 Dec 2023
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477 - A virtuoso of the short story, Lydia Davis's work is surprising and memorable Sun, 10 Dec 2023
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476 - In her prizewinning fiction, Sigrid Nunez deals with life — and death — with empathy and wit Sun, 03 Dec 2023
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475 - Looking back at A.S. Byatt, the celebrated English novelist and imaginative intellectual Sun, 26 Nov 2023
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474 - Nora Krug asks tough questions about her German family's wartime past Sun, 19 Nov 2023
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473 - Vietnam veteran Tim O'Brien on fictionalizing his war stories Sun, 12 Nov 2023
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472 - Jesmyn Ward on exploring the stories of America's South Sun, 05 Nov 2023
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471 - Jeanette Winterson brings humour and understanding to a fraught childhood Sun, 29 Oct 2023
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470 - How John Grisham turned his passion for justice into bestselling legal thrillers Sun, 22 Oct 2023
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469 - Viet Thanh Nguyen on redefining what it means to be a refugee Sun, 15 Oct 2023
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468 - Anne Enright on her Booker-winning novel, The Gathering, and how Canada helped make her a writer Sun, 08 Oct 2023
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467 - Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin on her legendary career and the power of storytelling Sun, 01 Oct 2023
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