Writers and Company

Writers and Company

CBC

CBC Radio's Writers and Company offers an opportunity to explore in depth the lives, thoughts and works of remarkable writers from around the world. Hosted by Eleanor Wachtel.

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.

Previous episodes

  • 492 - How Hisham Matar's writing reflects life under dictatorship and the pain of his father's abduction 
    Sun, 24 Mar 2024
  • 491 - Irish writers Michael Collins, Claire Keegan, Colum McCann and Nuala O'Faolain reflect on home and away 
    Sun, 17 Mar 2024
  • 490 - Catherine Lacey imagines a character without race or gender in her novel, Pew 
    Sun, 10 Mar 2024
  • 489 - Martin Amis on The Zone of Interest and Primo Levi’s unshakeable influence 
    Sun, 03 Mar 2024
  • 488 - James McBride on the complicated history of race in the United States 
    Sun, 25 Feb 2024
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