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It's April 14th, 1865. The actor John Wilkes Booth pulls a gun and assassinates President Lincoln who is sitting in a balcony of the Ford Theatre in Washington DC. Booth becomes one of the most infamous men in American history. But what about his family? Who were they? What did they believe? Did they have any role in the killing? These are questions author and Man Booker finalist Karen Joy Fowler discusses in her epic book, Booth.Booth is a sweeping American saga that charts the rising fame of the Booth family from humble beginnings to their fame as the nation's most famous family of actors. And, of course, it looks at their fates after the event that made them the nation's most infamous family of actors.This conversation was recorded on 15 Sept, 2022 at the OBA Public Library in Amsterdam and was presented by the University of Amsterdam Professor, Katy Hull.Become a member of the John Adams Institute.Support the show

Victims groomed and raped by gangs have told the BBC's Senior UK Correspondent Sima Kotecha that they are adamant the crime is still happening to girls across the country. Yesterday, a Tory amendment to the government's Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which wanted a national inquiry into grooming gangs, was voted down. Krupa Padhy talks to Sima and Simon Morton, a former senior investigating officer for Thames Valley Police, about what is known about how these gangs operate.Playing Nice, a new ITV drama, tells the story of two couples who discover their toddlers were accidentally swapped at birth. Actor Niamh Algar, who plays one of the mothers, and Grace Ofori-Attah, who wrote the script for the small screen, join Krupa to talk about the moral and ethical issues within the series, and why they hope it will spark a conversation.Two women who've developed a firm friendship through a shared experience of having a rare eye cancer join Krupa to talk about the incredible bond they have forged. Ocular melanoma affects only five in a million people but Tessa Wingfield-Parry and Joanna Denman, who happen to live just around the corner from each other, both were diagnosed. They talk about how they met, the impact the disease has had on their lives, and how they've discovered they've got a lot more in common than just their cancer.Whilst doing her Masters at the University of Cambridge, Times writer Tyler Bennett earnt extra money on the side writing erotica. Having cracked the code to a good steamy story, she joins Krupa along with the Man Booker shortlisted author Sarah Hall to discuss the genre, breaking taboos and erotica's ability to empower.Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Rebecca Myatt

Brendan is joined by Man Booker prize-winning author John Banville, author and journalist Aingeala Flannery and economist and writer David McWilliams who give their recommendations for the best books from nonfiction to novels to gift this festive season. Book recommendations, see Notes, Resources and Links - Brendan O'Connor show homepage.

En Espagne, la une des journaux est dominée par l'annonce du départ à la retraite du célèbre tennisman Rafael Nadal. Véritable légende du sport espagnol, cet athlète hors-norme a marqué l'histoire de son pays avec ses 22 titres du Grand Chelem, dont 14 victoires à Roland-Garros. Les médias espagnols ne tarissent pas d'éloges sur ce champion au palmarès exceptionnel, saluant son éthique de travail, son talent et son cœur. Ils évoquent avec nostalgie les heures passées à suivre ses exploits et ses émotions.En Corée du Sud, la grande nouvelle est l'attribution du prix Nobel de littérature à l'autrice Han Kang. Une première pour un écrivain sud-coréen, qui suscite une immense fierté nationale. Les journaux locaux soulignent la qualité de sa "prose poétique" et sa capacité à confronter les traumatismes historiques, révélant la fragilité de la condition humaine. Han Kang s'était déjà fait remarquer en 2016 avec son roman La Végétarienne, qui lui avait valu le prestigieux prix international Man Booker.En Argentine, le président Javier Millet poursuit sa politique d'austérité. Le Parlement vient d'approuver la non-revalorisation du budget des universités publiques, dans le but affiché de mener "la politique d'austérité la plus importante de l'histoire de l'humanité". Conséquence, le budget par étudiant a chuté de 30% en un an, atteignant son plus bas niveau depuis 20 ans. Face à ces coupes sombres, un vent de contestation souffle sur les campus, avec des occupations d'universités et des appels à la grève des syndicats enseignants.Notre équipe a utilisé un outil d'Intelligence artificielle via les technologies d'Audiomeans© pour accompagner la création de ce contenu écrit.

Lloyd Jones is well known for his numerous novels including Mister Pip which won the Commonwealth Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Man Booker.

Margaret Atwood. „Švino amžius“. Išleido leidykla „Alma littera“.Margaret Atvūd – iš Kanados kilusi rašytoja, poetė, eseistė, literatūros kritikė, išradėja, mokytoja ir aplinkosaugos aktyvistė. Daugiau nei 40 knygų autorė yra pelniusi gausybę literatūros apdovanojimų, tarp kurių ir prestižinę „Man Booker“ premiją už romaną „Aklasis žudikas“ ir tarptautinę Franzo Kafkos literatūros premiją už viso gyvenimo pasiekimus. Rašytojos kūriniai išleisti daugiau nei 35 šalyse ir išversti į daugiau nei 40 kalbų.Apsakymą „Švino amžius“ skaito aktorius Vytautas Anužis.

Margaret Atwood. „Švino amžius“. Išleido leidykla „Alma littera“.Margaret Atvūd – iš Kanados kilusi rašytoja, poetė, eseistė, literatūros kritikė, išradėja, mokytoja ir aplinkosaugos aktyvistė. Daugiau nei 40 knygų autorė yra pelniusi gausybę literatūros apdovanojimų, tarp kurių ir prestižinę „Man Booker“ premiją už romaną „Aklasis žudikas“ ir tarptautinę Franzo Kafkos literatūros premiją už viso gyvenimo pasiekimus. Rašytojos kūriniai išleisti daugiau nei 35 šalyse ir išversti į daugiau nei 40 kalbų.Apsakymą „Švino amžius“ skaito aktorius Vytautas Anužis.

Dans ce roman, David Diop raconte et questionne avec poésie et fatalité le sujet de l'émigration au travers des yeux d'une jeune femme faisant face à la pauvreté et la dictature de son pays.   Avec :- David Diop, enseignant-chercheur, écrivain, auteur de l'ouvrage Le Pays de Rêve, aux éditions Rageot. Il est lauréat du prix Goncourt des lycéens en 2018 et du prix international Man-Booker pour son roman Frère d'âme (aux éditions Seuil).

Dans ce roman, David Diop raconte et questionne avec poésie et fatalité le sujet de l'émigration au travers des yeux d'une jeune femme faisant face à la pauvreté et la dictature de son pays.   Avec :- David Diop, enseignant-chercheur, écrivain, auteur de l'ouvrage Le Pays de Rêve, aux éditions Rageot. Il est lauréat du prix Goncourt des lycéens en 2018 et du prix international Man-Booker pour son roman Frère d'âme (aux éditions Seuil).

3 vadiúj film, amiért érdemes a Netflixre kapcsolni idén januárban Hamu és Gyémánt     2024-01-05 06:24:01     Film Netflix Ugyan a Netflixet a legtöbben a sorozatairól ismerik, a legnagyobb streaming-szolgáltató azonban rengeteg saját gyártású filmet jelentet meg, ráadásul idén januárban is rendkívül izgalmas produkciókat fognak bemutatni. Russell Crowe rokona az utolsó embernek, akit lefejeztek Nagy-Britanniában Mafab     2024-01-05 04:00:03     Film London Twitter Russell Crowe A Gladiátor sztárja, Russell Crowe (legutóbbi szerepei a cikkünk galériájában) családtörténeti kutatásai során felfedezte, hogy rokonságban áll Simon Fraserrel, az utolsó emberrel, akit a londoni Towerben fejeztek le, állítja a színész az X-en (korábban Twitter). Kik írják igazából a bestseller könyveket? 24.hu     2024-01-04 18:02:11     Könyv Régóta tudjuk, hogy nem minden könyv a borítón feltüntetett szerző munkája, de kik a háttérben meghúzódó, titokzatos írók, és miért maradtak oly sokáig homályban? Bemutatjuk az utóbbi időben egyre több figyelmet kapó szellemírói szakma legfontosabb kérdéseit. A gyerekkor helyszínét csak elveszíteni lehet Könyves Magazin     2024-01-05 07:49:50     Könyv Nobel-díj Krasznahorkai László Január 5-én lett hetvenéves Krasznahorkai László, a kortárs magyar irodalom egyik legnagyobb alakja, akinek minden új kötetét türelmetlenül várjuk, akinek minden évben drukkolunk az irodalmi Nobel-díj kihirdetésekor, akinek hosszúmondataiba gyakran beleveszünk, és akinek könyveit időről időre újraolvassuk. A Sátántangó szerzőjének 1985-ben induló, Nem jött be az időutazós buli, lekésték az újévi koccintást InStyle Men     2024-01-05 06:06:09     Bulvár Szilveszter Újév A United Airlines egyik járata azzal csábította az utasokat, hogy éljék át az új év első pillanatait kétszer egymás után. Elfáradt a családbarát formula, a Marvel most a brutalitással próbálkozik Player     2024-01-05 08:00:12     Film Válság Marvel Nem kezdjük el megint ecsetelni, miért is érezheti magát válságban a Marvel Studios. Legyen elég annyi, hogy az összes tavalyi alkotásuk – leszámítva talán a Loki második évadát – vagy besült, vagy a várakozások alatt teljesített, ami alaposan elgondolkodtatta a stúdió fejeseit. Gyermekotthonból a világ színpadjaira kultura.hu     2024-01-04 17:30:00     Zene Gyermekotthon Mit és hogyan viseljen a dáma, ha francia? Mit, ha német területen keletkezett opera vagy színmű szereplője? Mi a különbség egy arisztokra hölgy és egy szolgáló öltözéke, tartása, mozgása között? A történeti források elárulják, Kalafszky Adriána szerint pedig mindez megtanulható. Régi-új Paramore-album mandarinban – a zenekar közben törölte a közösségi oldalai tartalmát Koncert.hu     2024-01-05 09:12:39     Zene 2024. január 5-én jelenik meg a Paramore azonos címre keresztelt albumának 10. jubileumi kiadása mandarinszínü, 2 LP formátumban, melynek színét maga az énekesnő, Hayley Williams választotta. Két új Tj Klune regény is megjelenik 2024-ben! Sorok között     2024-01-04 20:18:18     Könyv A Galaktika nemrég hozta a jó hírt, miszerint két TJ Klune regénynek is örülhetünk idén. 2024 májusában jön a Farkasok dala, ami a Green Creek sorozat első része, ősszel pedig A ház az égszínkék tengernél folytatása. A kiadó a Facebook oldalán bővebben is írt a kötetekről, ezt be is másolom. Azt kell mondjam nagyon izgatott Lisa Frankenstein: zombis coming-of-age alkotás lehet az idei Valentin-nap nagyágyúja UZine     2024-01-05 09:55:52     Film Humor Valentin-nap A Lisa Frankenstein afféle fanyar felnövéstörténet, némi humorral és horrorral megfűszerezve.  Ki ne ismerné Mary Shelley 1818-ban megjelent ikonikus rémregényét, a Frankensteint, amelyben egy lelkes fiatal tudós megalkot egy teremtményt, aki szép lassan öntudatra ébred. Nos, a Diablo Cody által írt történetnek stílusát tekintve nem sok köze van a Reményre ítélve – Krasznahorkai László születésnapjára Fidelio     2024-01-05 09:25:00     Könyv Krasznahorkai László Man Booker-díj Hetven éve, 1954. január 5-én született Krasznahorkai László Kossuth- és Nemzetközi Man Booker-díjas író, a kortárs magyar irodalom egyik legkiemelkedőbb alakja. Az évforduló alkalmából a művészt a Fidelio könyvrovatának vezetője köszönti személyes hangvételű levelében.  A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

3 vadiúj film, amiért érdemes a Netflixre kapcsolni idén januárban Hamu és Gyémánt     2024-01-05 06:24:01     Film Netflix Ugyan a Netflixet a legtöbben a sorozatairól ismerik, a legnagyobb streaming-szolgáltató azonban rengeteg saját gyártású filmet jelentet meg, ráadásul idén januárban is rendkívül izgalmas produkciókat fognak bemutatni. Russell Crowe rokona az utolsó embernek, akit lefejeztek Nagy-Britanniában Mafab     2024-01-05 04:00:03     Film London Twitter Russell Crowe A Gladiátor sztárja, Russell Crowe (legutóbbi szerepei a cikkünk galériájában) családtörténeti kutatásai során felfedezte, hogy rokonságban áll Simon Fraserrel, az utolsó emberrel, akit a londoni Towerben fejeztek le, állítja a színész az X-en (korábban Twitter). Kik írják igazából a bestseller könyveket? 24.hu     2024-01-04 18:02:11     Könyv Régóta tudjuk, hogy nem minden könyv a borítón feltüntetett szerző munkája, de kik a háttérben meghúzódó, titokzatos írók, és miért maradtak oly sokáig homályban? Bemutatjuk az utóbbi időben egyre több figyelmet kapó szellemírói szakma legfontosabb kérdéseit. A gyerekkor helyszínét csak elveszíteni lehet Könyves Magazin     2024-01-05 07:49:50     Könyv Nobel-díj Krasznahorkai László Január 5-én lett hetvenéves Krasznahorkai László, a kortárs magyar irodalom egyik legnagyobb alakja, akinek minden új kötetét türelmetlenül várjuk, akinek minden évben drukkolunk az irodalmi Nobel-díj kihirdetésekor, akinek hosszúmondataiba gyakran beleveszünk, és akinek könyveit időről időre újraolvassuk. A Sátántangó szerzőjének 1985-ben induló, Nem jött be az időutazós buli, lekésték az újévi koccintást InStyle Men     2024-01-05 06:06:09     Bulvár Szilveszter Újév A United Airlines egyik járata azzal csábította az utasokat, hogy éljék át az új év első pillanatait kétszer egymás után. Elfáradt a családbarát formula, a Marvel most a brutalitással próbálkozik Player     2024-01-05 08:00:12     Film Válság Marvel Nem kezdjük el megint ecsetelni, miért is érezheti magát válságban a Marvel Studios. Legyen elég annyi, hogy az összes tavalyi alkotásuk – leszámítva talán a Loki második évadát – vagy besült, vagy a várakozások alatt teljesített, ami alaposan elgondolkodtatta a stúdió fejeseit. Gyermekotthonból a világ színpadjaira kultura.hu     2024-01-04 17:30:00     Zene Gyermekotthon Mit és hogyan viseljen a dáma, ha francia? Mit, ha német területen keletkezett opera vagy színmű szereplője? Mi a különbség egy arisztokra hölgy és egy szolgáló öltözéke, tartása, mozgása között? A történeti források elárulják, Kalafszky Adriána szerint pedig mindez megtanulható. Régi-új Paramore-album mandarinban – a zenekar közben törölte a közösségi oldalai tartalmát Koncert.hu     2024-01-05 09:12:39     Zene 2024. január 5-én jelenik meg a Paramore azonos címre keresztelt albumának 10. jubileumi kiadása mandarinszínü, 2 LP formátumban, melynek színét maga az énekesnő, Hayley Williams választotta. Két új Tj Klune regény is megjelenik 2024-ben! Sorok között     2024-01-04 20:18:18     Könyv A Galaktika nemrég hozta a jó hírt, miszerint két TJ Klune regénynek is örülhetünk idén. 2024 májusában jön a Farkasok dala, ami a Green Creek sorozat első része, ősszel pedig A ház az égszínkék tengernél folytatása. A kiadó a Facebook oldalán bővebben is írt a kötetekről, ezt be is másolom. Azt kell mondjam nagyon izgatott Lisa Frankenstein: zombis coming-of-age alkotás lehet az idei Valentin-nap nagyágyúja UZine     2024-01-05 09:55:52     Film Humor Valentin-nap A Lisa Frankenstein afféle fanyar felnövéstörténet, némi humorral és horrorral megfűszerezve.  Ki ne ismerné Mary Shelley 1818-ban megjelent ikonikus rémregényét, a Frankensteint, amelyben egy lelkes fiatal tudós megalkot egy teremtményt, aki szép lassan öntudatra ébred. Nos, a Diablo Cody által írt történetnek stílusát tekintve nem sok köze van a Reményre ítélve – Krasznahorkai László születésnapjára Fidelio     2024-01-05 09:25:00     Könyv Krasznahorkai László Man Booker-díj Hetven éve, 1954. január 5-én született Krasznahorkai László Kossuth- és Nemzetközi Man Booker-díjas író, a kortárs magyar irodalom egyik legkiemelkedőbb alakja. Az évforduló alkalmából a művészt a Fidelio könyvrovatának vezetője köszönti személyes hangvételű levelében.  A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

Három hét múlva, január 3-án jelenik meg Krasznahorkai László következő regénye, a Zsömle odavan. A kötetet szokás szerint a Magvető Kiadó adja ki az író 70. születésnapjára, ami január 5-én lesz. A közelgő kettős ünnep alkalmából hívtuk meg Krasznahorkai Lászlót a Friderikusz Podcast stúdiójába, bár az igazsághoz hozzátartozik, hogy több mint egyéves időpont-egyeztetés előzte meg a találkozót, de ezért a kiadós beszélgetésért megérte várni a sok más mellett Man Booker-díjas íróra. A másfél órás podcastban szó lesz Krasznahorkai jellegzetes stílusjegyeiről, a tőmondatok hiányáról, az író fejében rajzó hősökről és az ő papírra kívánkozó történeteikről, az író családjának elhagyásáról, a létezés szomorúságáról, a Krasznahorkai név eredetéről, a jó könyv mibenlétéről, a mindig utolsó regényről, a folytonos helyváltoztatások kényszeréről, a Nobel-díj kísértéséről, az elitizmus veszélyéről, a civilizáció süllyedéséről, a digitális technika felemás értékéről, és arról, hogy mi lesz, amikor a mesterséges intelligencia megírja a legújabb Krasznahorkai regényt. Együttműködő partnerünk a KARE Design, amely az alábbi linken elérhető: https://www.kare24.hu Hogyan támogathatja a munkánkat? Legyen a patronálónk, és a támogatása mértékétől függően egyre több előnyhöz juthat: https://www.patreon.com/FriderikuszPodcast Egyszeri vagy rendszeres banki átutalással is segíthet. Ehhez a legfontosabb adatok: Név: TV Pictures Számlaszám: OTP Bank 11707062-21446081 Közlemény: Podcast-támogatás Ha külföldről utalna, nemzetközi számlaszámunk (IBAN - International Bank Account Number): HU68 1170 7062 2144 6081 0000 0000 BIC/SWIFT-kód: OTPVHUHB Akármilyen formában támogatja munkánkat, köszönjük! Kövessenek, kövessetek itt is: youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FriderikuszPodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FriderikuszPodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/friderikuszpodcast Anchor: https://anchor.fm/friderikuszpodcast Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3blRo2g Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3fc7A7t Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3hm2vfi Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/hu/show/1000256535

By Samantha Harvey. Mum drives through the Dark Hedges, crossing a threshold into a different world. Read by Deirdre Mullins. Topical fiction inspired by the story, in this week's news, that some of the beech trees that line the Bregagh Road in Armoy, County Antrim, have been felled amid concern for public safety. The trees, a landmark in their own right, were made more famous after featuring in the fantasy drama Game of Thrones. Samantha won the Betty Trask Prize for her first novel The Wilderness, which was longlisted for the Man Booker, and shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. Her work has been described by critics as 'spectacular', 'beautiful' and 'profound', and her latest novel, 'Orbital', an 'awe-inspiring and humbling love letter to Earth', has been selected by The Guardian as one of the most important books of 2023. Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery

Canadian author and screenwriter Patrick deWitt has a penchant for weirdos and non-heroes. His books include Man Booker shortlisted The Sisters Brothers, a Western featuring sibling assassins, Ablutions, narrated by an alcoholic bartender, deviant fairytale Undermajordomo Minor, and French Exit, in which a mother and son flee to Paris with their cat whose body her late husband's soul has transmogrified. His latest is The Librarianist which follows introverted bookworm Bob Comet as he makes a late-life bid to connect.

What can Korean culture teach us about being happier and more fulfilled? New York literary agent and author Barbara Zitwer has spent decades figuring this out, culminating in her book, The Korean Book of Happiness.  Barbara and Andrew discuss the ancient Korean philosophies of Han, Heung and Jeong (resilience, joy and the art of giving), and Barbara's experiences staying in a Buddhist temple and meeting with nuns in the mountains.  They also touch on the exuberant joy of modern Korean culture (which many of us may have experienced via Squid Game, K-pop, the 10-Step skincare routine or Korean daytime dramas). Barbara J. Zitwer is an international literary agent specialising in Korean literature. She discovered Man Booker prize winning author Hang Kang (The Vegetarian) and New York Times bestseller Kyung-sook Shin (Please Look After Mom) along with Jeong you-jeong (The Good Son) and Un Su Kim (The Plotters).She was awarded the 2016 International Literary Agent of the Year Award by the British Publishing Association.  If You're Looking for More…. You can subscribe to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Podcasts) and hear a bonus mini-episode every week. Or you can join our Supporters Club on Patreon to also access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests  and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just £4.50.  This week supporters will hear: ⭐️How to feed your soul (Korean style). ⭐️Three things Barbara Zitwer knows to be true. ⭐️AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees. Follow Up Read Andrew's new Substack newsletter The Meaningful Life, and join the community there. Read Barbara Zitwer's new book The Korean Book of Happiness Watch this KBS World Radio interview with Barbara Zitwer about her work promoting Korean literature and culture. Follow Barbara Zitwer on Facebook @barbara.zitwer, on Instagram @barbarajzitwer and on Twitter/X @BZitwer You might also enjoy our episodes on How to be Happier with Richard Nicholls; or A Deeper Connection With Everything Through Haiku with Clark Strand.   Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall 

Paul Murray talks to Neil about his latest novel The Bee Sting, which was recently long-listed for the 2023 Man Booker prize. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alexandra was Editor-in-Chief of Bloomsbury Publishing for 20 years and she is now Executive Publisher. She began her career on the art magazine Art Monthly and joined Virago Press in 1978 where she edited the Virago Modern Classics series, becoming Editorial Director in 1984. In 1990 she moved to Hamish Hamilton as Editorial Director and four years later left publishing to become a literary agent during which time her clients included Amanda Foreman, Geoff Dyer, Maggie O'Farrell and Ali Smith. She joined Bloomsbury in 1999. Her list of authors includes Margaret Atwood, Richard Ford, Esther Freud, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sheila Hancock, Khaled Hosseini, Celia Imrie, Nicole Krauss, Jhumpa Lahiri, Colum McCann, Anne Michaels, Ann Patchett, Hannah Rothschild, George Saunders, 2017  Man Booker winner for Lincoln in the Bardo.Kamila Shamsie, Patti Smith, Kate Summerscale and Barbara Trapido. Abdulrazak Gurnah Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

Hver måned presenterer Øivind Hånes en ny nobelprisvinner i litteratur. Denne gangen er det den novellemesteren Alice Munro som står for tur. En av vår tids aller største novelleforfattere, og vinner av Nobelprisen i litteratur 2013. Alice Munro er født i 1931, vokste opp i Wingham i Ontario i Canada, og studerte ved Western Ontario-universitetet. Sammen med sin første mann åpnet hun den berømte bokhandelen Munro's Books i 1963 i byen Victoria. Som en av Canadas aller fremste forfattere har hun mottatt en lang rekke priser og utmerkelser, og fortellingene hennes har vært publisert i blant annet The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Granta og Paris Review. Munro vant Man Booker-prisen i 2009 og ble tildelt Nobelprisen i litteratur 2013. Foto: Derek Shapton (gyldendal.no)

Alexandra was Editor-in-Chief of Bloomsbury Publishing for 20 years and she is now Executive Publisher. She began her career on the art magazine Art Monthly and joined Virago Press in 1978 where she edited the Virago Modern Classics series, becoming Editorial Director in 1984. In 1990 she moved to Hamish Hamilton as Editorial Director and four years later left publishing to become a literary agent during which time her clients included Amanda Foreman, Geoff Dyer, Maggie O'Farrell and Ali Smith. She joined Bloomsbury in 1999. Her list of authors includes Margaret Atwood, Richard Ford, Esther Freud, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sheila Hancock, Khaled Hosseini, Celia Imrie, Nicole Krauss, Jhumpa Lahiri, Colum McCann, Anne Michaels, Ann Patchett, Hannah Rothschild, George Saunders, 2017  Man Booker winner for Lincoln in the Bardo.Kamila Shamsie, Patti Smith, Kate Summerscale and Barbara Trapido. Abdulrazak Gurnah Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

In our "world Literary" discussion, we focused on Milkman, which is a fiction novel written by the Northern Irish author Anna Burns. The story sets during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, the story follows an 18-year-old girl who is harassed by an older married man known as "Milkman". - SBS සිංහල සේවය ගෙන එන "විශ්ව සාහිත්‍යයේ රස මංපෙත් " - ලෝක සාහිත්‍ය පිලිබඳ රසවින්දනාත්මක විශේෂාංගයේ මෙවර අවධානය යොමුවුනේ අයර්ලන්ත ජාතික ඇනා බර්න්ස් විසින් රචිත, 2018 වසරේ The Man Booker සම්මානය හිමිකරගත් "මිල්ක්මන්" ලෝකප්‍රකට නවකතාව පිළිබඳවයි. මෙය ලේඛිකා ස්වර්ණකාන්ති රාජපක්ෂ විසින් 'මිල්ක්මන් ' යන නමින්ම සිංහල භාෂාවට පරිවර්තනය කොට තිබේ.

What is your favorite novel?   It's a hard question. A big question! A question that makes most people hmmm for a while before they get to an answer. If they get to an answer! But I think I know mine. My favorite novel is A Fraction of a Whole by Steve Toltz.   First, the book came to me in an interesting way. I walked into wonderful indie bookstore Type on Queen Street West in downtown Toronto a couple days before my wedding to Leslie. I was looking for a good book to take on my honeymoon. (Insert obvious joke: "You wanted to read on your honeymoon?" But yes. I did. We did!)   I spent two or three hours with incredible bookseller Kalpna who painstakingly picked book after book off the shelf working through my way-too-long list of criteria: the book couldn't be too heavy, it couldn't be too *physically* large, but it also had to last the trip because I only had one tiny bag so, you know, it had to simultaneously be fairly dense. And it had to be fiction. And it had to be fast-paced. And it would be good if it was funny. And, and, and...   Well, Kalpna (bless her) kept pulling books off the shelves and I kept doing The First Five Pages Test to check every book for pace, tone, rhythm, style, and language. I must have flipped through a few dozen books before I ended up with A Fraction of a Whole by Steve Toltz. A book I'd never heard of! By a guy I'd never heard of!   Why? Well, the first sentence pulled me in: “You never hear about a sportsman losing his sense of smell in a tragic accident and for good reason; in order for the universe to teach excruciating lessons that we are unable to apply in later life, the sportsman must lose his legs, the philosopher his mind, the painter his eyes, the musician his ears, the chef his tongue.” I kept reading and it just took off from there. Piles of accolades littered across the jacket helped too: “Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize”, "Finalist for The Guardian First Book Award", "Deserves a place next to The Confederacy of Dunces" (Wall Street Journal), "Soars like a rocket!" (LA Times), "A comic masterpiece!" (Ottawa Citizen) and on and on...   I fell deep into Steve's Toltz's absurd world of endless turns and surprise pearls of wisdom and spent years since then trying to land this interview with him! He is a deep and focused writer who is well off social media and doesn't do "the rounds" so it took some time. I emailed him some of my favorite lines from his books, sat in the front row to hear him speak at the International Festival of Authors, and waited -- just waited! -- for his next novel to come out so I could try again. And now it finally has...   Steve Toltz was born in 1972 in Sydney, Australia and he is the Man Booker-shortlisted award-winning novelist of three books including A Fraction of the Whole (2008), Quicksand (2016), and his newest Here Goes Nothing (2022). I personally recommend starting with A Fraction of the Whole because it was so deeply affecting to me and many folks I've recommended it to, but all three contain his wholly original sideways genius that constantly amazes and surprises.   Steve has lived in Montreal, Vancouver, New York, Barcelona, Paris, and Los Angeles and worked as a cameraman, telemarketer, security guard, private investigator, teacher, screenwriter, and, well, a lot more. I'm not sure he's right but he says in this interview: "If you want to become a novelist you sort of have to be a loser for a while.”   I was so excited to talk to Steve Toltz and we go deep on many things including: fear of death, Woody Allen, writing by hand in two-hour chunks, finding your voice, anonymity and success, Russian Literature, how to avoid quitting, how to start big projects, raising readers, books for boys, and, of course, the incredible Steve Toltz's 3 most formative books.   It is my privilege, pleasure, and honor to share this conversation. As always, I'll be in your left ear, Steve will be in your right, and we pull up a chair between us for you to come on in...   Let's flip the page into Chapter 119 now…   What You'll Learn: What does fear of death make us do? What are the different ways authors develop character in a novel? What is the value of a reading list? What is the connection between Woody Allen and Russian Literature? What misconceptions do we have about classical literature? What is Steve's writing process? What is the power of writing by hand? What does it mean to write with your subconscious? What is a writer's voice? How do writer's deal with anonymity and success? How do we not quit big projects? How can we learn to accept criticism? How do we separate the art from the artist? How do you raise a reader? What are the best books for young boys? How can we reclaim our focus?   You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: https://www.3books.co/chapters/119   Leave us a voicemail. Your message may be included in a future chapter: 1-833-READ-A-LOT.     Sign up to receive podcast updates here: https://www.3books.co/email-list    3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 15-year-long quest to uncover and discuss the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter discusses the 3 most formative books of one of the world's most inspiring people. Sample guests include: Brené Brown, David Sedaris, Malcolm Gladwell, Angie Thomas, Cheryl Strayed, Rich Roll, Soyoung the Variety Store Owner, Derek the Hype Man, Kevin the Bookseller, Vishwas the Uber Driver, Roxane Gay, David Mitchell, Vivek Murthy, Mark Manson, Seth Godin, Judy Blume and Quentin Tarantino. 3 Books is published on the lunar calendar with each of the 333 chapters dropped on the exact minute of every single new moon and every single full moon all the way up to 5:21 am on September 1, 2031. 3 Books is an Apple "Best Of" award-winning show and is 100% non-profit with no ads, no sponsors, no commercials, and no interruptions. 3 Books has 3 clubs including the End of the Podcast Club, the Cover to Cover Club, and the Secret Club, which operates entirely through the mail and is only accessible by calling 1-833-READ-A-LOT. Each chapter is hosted by Neil Pasricha, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome, The Happiness Equation, Two-Minute Mornings, etc. For more info check out: https://www.3books.co  

Simon and Rachel speak with the academic and author Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. After undergraduate studies and a PhD at Cambridge, Robert moved to Oxford in 2002, where he is a professor of English Literature and a fellow of Magdalen College. His previous books include "Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist", which won the Duff Cooper Prize for biography in 2011; "The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland" in 2015, which was shortlisted for the Costa Prize, and most recently "The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World" (2021). Robert has edited editions of Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley and J.M. Barrie, and is a regular contributor to the Times, Guardian, Spectator, Literary Review, New Statesman and TLS. He has worked as a historical advisor on BBC adaptations of "Jane Eyre" (2006), "Emma" (2009) and "Great Expectations" (2011); acted as a consultant to the "Enola Holmes" film franchise; and served as a judge for the Man Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes. We spoke to Robert about combining an academic career with writing for a wider audience, his biographies of Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll, and his upcoming book "Metamorphosis." You can find us online at alwaystakenotes.com, on Twitter @takenotesalways and on Instagram @alwaystakenotes. Our crowdfunding page is patreon.com/alwaystakenotes. Always Take Notes is presented by Simon Akam and Rachel Lloyd, and produced by Artemis Irvine. Our music is by Jessica Dannheisser and our logo was designed by James Edgar.

Krasznahorkai László Kossuth-díjas magyar író, a Széchenyi Irodalmi és Művészeti Akadémia tagja. Műveit szinte kivétel nélkül mindig elismeréssel fogadták a kritikusok, az Egyesült Államoktól Japánig. Susan Sontag, amerikai író, kritikus „az apokalipszis Gogolt és Melville-t idéző magyar mesterének” nevezte Krasznahorkait. 1985 óta filmrendező barátja, Tarr Béla szinte kizárólag az ő könyveiből, illetve forgatókönyveiből készítette filmjeit, köztük a világhírű Sátántangót és a Werckmeister harmóniákat. Krasznahorkai Tarr minden fontos döntésében segítette a filmrendezőt. Számos díj kitüntetettje az író, sok más mellett 2015. május 18-án elnyerte a Nemzetközi Man Booker-díjat, amely magyar író először kapott meg. Ez a nagyon jó hangulatú és sokrétű beszélgetés pár nappal a Man Booker-díj odaítélése után készült Krasznahorkai Lászlóval. Hogyan támogathatja a munkánkat? Legyen a patronálónk, és a támogatása mértékétől függően egyre több előnyhöz juthat: https://www.patreon.com/FriderikuszPodcast Egyszeri vagy rendszeres banki átutalással is segíthet. Ehhez a legfontosabb adatok: Név: TV Pictures Számlaszám: OTP Bank 11707062-21446081 Közlemény: Podcast-támogatás Ha külföldről utalna, nemzetközi számlaszámunk (IBAN - International Bank Account Number): HU68 1170 7062 2144 6081 0000 0000 BIC/SWIFT-kód: OTPVHUHB Akármilyen formában támogatja munkánkat, köszönjük! Kövessenek, kövessetek itt is: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FriderikuszPodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/friderikuszpodcast Anchor: https://anchor.fm/friderikuszpodcast Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3blRo2g Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3fc7A7t Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3hm2vfi #FriderikuszPodcast #FriderikuszArchiv

The Man Booker prize winning novelist George Saunders turns to short-stories for his latest book, Liberation Day. From workers dressed as ‘ghouls' in an underground amusement park to brainwashed political protestors and story-telling slaves his protagonists underscore what it means to live in community with others. George Saunders tells Tom Sutcliffe how his stories veer from bizarre fantasy to brutal reality. The move from fantasy to stark reality can be seen in the history of Russians living in exile in Paris after the Revolution in 1917. Helen Rappaport's After the Romanovs details how former princes, used to a life of luxury, could be seen driving taxicabs. While some emigres, like Diaghilev and Chagall, found great success in this new world, others became trapped in a cycle of poverty and homesickness for a country that was no longer theirs. The BFI and UK-wide horror film season In Dreams are Monsters celebrates how monstrous bodies of all kinds have been represented on screen over the past hundred years. Curator Anna Bogutskaya explores the symbolism and emotional impact of ghosts, vampires, witches and, arguably the most politicised of all cinematic monsters, the zombie – a terrifying, dead-eyed blank canvas for social commentary. Producer: Katy Hickman

The traditions of fable and myth – Ovid's Metamorphoses, the tales of Aesop and Grimm, Homer's Iliad and the pūrākau of Polynesia, to name a few – have acted as compasses for millennia, exploring human experience and answering timeless questions. Join two contemporary writers at the height of their powers – Commonwealth Prize winner and Man Booker-shortlisted Lloyd Jones ('The Fish') and 2022 Ockham NZ Book Awards Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize Fiction winner Whiti Hereaka ('Kurangaituku') – in conversation with Claire Mabey – to interrogate the history and power of these ancient storytelling forms and why each has chosen them for their recent narratives. SATURDAY 27 AUGUST 2022 – 3.30-4.30PM WAITĀKERE ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Annie Ernaux, née Duchesne, was born in 1940 in Lillebonne Normandy. A few years later her parents moved to Yvetot, where they kept a café and grocery shop in a working-class district of the town. She studied at a private Catholic secondary school in Yvetot, encountering girls from more middle-class backgrounds, and experiencing shame of her working-class parents and milieu for the first time. In 1958, at eighteen, she left home for the summer to look after children in a summer camp (colonie de vacances).During that summer, living for the first time with a group of people of her own age, she had her first sexual experiences, recounted in her recent work Mémoire de fille (A Girl's Story). In this same book, she also writes about her stay in London as an au pair in 1960, and her first attempt at Higher Education which took the form of primary teacher training in Rouen. At the end of the book we see Annie returning to Rouen from London to take a degree in literature, having abandoned her primary school teacher training course. She had also already written the first pages of her first, unpublished novel in London.The years that followed saw her married with two sons, qualifying as a secondary school teacher in two competitive examinations, the Capès and the still more prestigious agrégation, and teaching French in a secondary school in Annecy, Haute Savoie. One of her rare returns to Normandy coincided with her father's final illness and death in 1967. In 1974 Annie Ernaux published her first book, Cleaned Out, a fictionalized account of the illegal abortion she underwent in 1964, and her move from working-class to middle-class culture through education. In 1977 the family moved to Cergy-Pontoise, a new town in the Paris region. Ernaux eventually left secondary school teaching and took up a post at the Cned, Centre for Distance Education. She won both literary acclaim in the form of the Prix Renaudot, and a large readership with the publication of her account of her father's life, A Man's Place in 1983. After her divorce in the early 1980s, Ernaux remained in her house in Cergy, where she lives to this day. In 2000 she retired from her teaching post, and devoted herself to writing, and in 2008 published The Years, considered by many to be her crowning achievement in terms both of its content and innovative form, intertwining personal and collective history over six decades. The success of this work was recognized by the award of the Marguerite Duras and the François Mauriac prizes, and the English translation shortlisted for the Man Booker prize International.Her works overall have received the French language prize and the Marguerite Yourcenar prize, as well as publication of her almost complete works to date in the Quarto edition by Gallimard in 2011 (Ernaux is the first woman writer to be published in this series in her lifetime). In 2014 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Cergy-Pontoise. In October 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”.From https://www.annie-ernaux.org/biography/. For more information about Annie Ernaux:Simple Passion: https://www.sevenstories.com/books/3493-simple-passion“Nobel Prize in Literature is Awarded to Annie Ernaux”: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/06/books/nobel-prize-literature“Annie Ernaux's Justly Deserved Nobel”: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/annie-ernauxs-justly-deserved-nobel“A Voice in ​​French Literature: Her Own”: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/books/annie-ernaux-a-girls-story.html

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Annie Ernaux, née Duchesne, was born in 1940 in Lillebonne Normandy. A few years later her parents moved to Yvetot, where they kept a café and grocery shop in a working-class district of the town. She studied at a private Catholic secondary school in Yvetot, encountering girls from more middle-class backgrounds, and experiencing shame of her working-class parents and milieu for the first time. In 1958, at eighteen, she left home for the summer to look after children in a summer camp (colonie de vacances).During that summer, living for the first time with a group of people of her own age, she had her first sexual experiences, recounted in her recent work Mémoire de fille (A Girl's Story). In this same book, she also writes about her stay in London as an au pair in 1960, and her first attempt at Higher Education which took the form of primary teacher training in Rouen. At the end of the book we see Annie returning to Rouen from London to take a degree in literature, having abandoned her primary school teacher training course. She had also already written the first pages of her first, unpublished novel in London.The years that followed saw her married with two sons, qualifying as a secondary school teacher in two competitive examinations, the Capès and the still more prestigious agrégation, and teaching French in a secondary school in Annecy, Haute Savoie. One of her rare returns to Normandy coincided with her father's final illness and death in 1967. In 1974 Annie Ernaux published her first book, Cleaned Out, a fictionalized account of the illegal abortion she underwent in 1964, and her move from working-class to middle-class culture through education. In 1977 the family moved to Cergy-Pontoise, a new town in the Paris region. Ernaux eventually left secondary school teaching and took up a post at the Cned, Centre for Distance Education. She won both literary acclaim in the form of the Prix Renaudot, and a large readership with the publication of her account of her father's life, A Man's Place in 1983. After her divorce in the early 1980s, Ernaux remained in her house in Cergy, where she lives to this day. In 2000 she retired from her teaching post, and devoted herself to writing, and in 2008 published The Years, considered by many to be her crowning achievement in terms both of its content and innovative form, intertwining personal and collective history over six decades. The success of this work was recognized by the award of the Marguerite Duras and the François Mauriac prizes, and the English translation shortlisted for the Man Booker prize International.Her works overall have received the French language prize and the Marguerite Yourcenar prize, as well as publication of her almost complete works to date in the Quarto edition by Gallimard in 2011 (Ernaux is the first woman writer to be published in this series in her lifetime). In 2014 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Cergy-Pontoise. In October 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”.From https://www.annie-ernaux.org/biography/. For more information about Annie Ernaux:Les Années / The Years: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/556070/the-years-by-annie-ernaux/“Nobel Prize in Literature is Awarded to Annie Ernaux”: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/06/books/nobel-prize-literature“In Annie Ernaux, a Nobel Laureate Who Plumbs Her Own Passions”: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/books/review/annie-ernaux-appraisal-nobel.html“Annie Ernaux: ‘Uncompromising' French author wins Nobel Literature Prize”: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63156199“Annie Ernaux, a Memoirist Who Mistrusts Her Own Memories”: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/a-memoirist-who-mistrusts-her-own-memories“Meet The Translator: Alison L. Strayer”: https://lizzysiddal.wordpress.com/2020/02/27/meet-the-translator-alison-l-strayer-fitzcarraldofortnight/

Last night Ruth won the Women's Prize for her wonderful novel, The Book Of Form And Emptiness, so I thought I'd give this another listen. Here are the original show notes:My guest this week is a novelist, film-maker - and Zen Buddhist priest. Ruth Ozeki was born in Conneticut in the 1950s to a Japanese mother and, as she puts it, caucasian anthropologist father. Despite always wanting to write, she didn't publish her first novel until she was 40, because, in part, she “didn't feel entitled to”. She needn't have worried. That novel, My Year Of Meats, won the Kiriyama Prize and the American Book Award, and her third A Tale For The Time Being, was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2013. Her latest novel, The Book Of Form And Emptiness, looks destined to go the same way.But buddhism has informed Ruth's life just as much as - if not more than - writing. She joined me to run the conversational gamut! We talked meditation, ageing, grief, living through the death of our parents, writing out her teenage mental health crises, why objects mean so much to us, the appeal of Marie Kondo, coming to terms with our ageing face and why menopause and adolescence have so much in common.• You can buy all the books mentioned in this podcast at Bookshop.org, including The Book Of Form And Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki and the book that inspired this podcast, The Shift: how I lost and found myself after 40 - and you can too, by me!And if you'd like to support the work that goes into making this podcast and get a weekly newsletter plus loads more content including transcripts of the podcast, please join The Shift community. Find out more at https://steadyhq.com/en/theshift/• The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker is created and hosted by Sam Baker and edited by Emily Sandford. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it really does help other people find us. And let me know what you think on twitter @sambaker or instagram @theothersambaker. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Listen to an exclusive interview with The International Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree. Her Hindi novel ‘Ret Samadhi' (Tomb of Sand) is the first book originally written in any Indian language to win the International Booker Prize, and the first novel translated from Hindi to be recognised by the award.In conversation with broadcaster Achala Sharma, recorded on the eve of Booker announcement in London, Geetanjali Shree discusses the process of writing her award winning novel, working along with her translator, Daisy Rockwell, her life and work in this 24th episode of Cine Ink Podcast Series ‘Kitaab Kaulum'. ‘Ret Samadhi' has been published by Rajkamal Prakashan, New Delhi, and translated in English by Daisy Rockwell under the title 'Tomb of Sand' published by Tilted Axis Press UK. Set in northern India, Tomb of Sand follows the adventures of an 80-year-old woman who unexpectedly gains a new, and highly unconventional, lease of life. The result is a book that is engaging, funny and utterly original, at the same time as being an urgent and timely protest against the destructive impact of borders and boundaries - whether between religions, countries or genders. 

Karen Joy Fowler didn't want to write a novel. But an editor had asked her to lunch. She should take the meeting to be polite, she thought. She'd just end the lunch with a “No, thank you, I don't want to write a book,” and that would be that. Instead, she ended up agreeing to a multi-book deal and launching a thriving career of award-winners and bestsellers, including The Jane Austen Book Club, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and, her most recent, Booth. All because she said yes to lunch. In her latest work, Karen explores the people around a villain—and how to humanize them, their level of responsibility, and all of the “what ifs” around the family of John Wilkes Booth. We talk about writing groups and who makes it, lavish praise and scathing reviews, and how to make a career in this publishing climate. Learn more about her work here: KarenJoyFowler.com From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth—breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean actor and master of the house in all ways—is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying instability. One by one the children arrive, as year by year, the country draws closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war. As the children grow and the tenor of the world shifts, the Booths cement their place as one of the country's leading theatrical families. But behind the curtains of the many stages they have graced, multiple scandals, family triumphs, and disasters begin to take their toll. A startling portrait of a country in the throes of change and a vivid exploration of brother- and sisterhood, Booth is a riveting historical novel focused on the very things that bind, and break, a family.

In this mighty follow-up to his Number 1 bestseller Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Man Booker-winner Marlon James once again draws on a rich tradition of African mythology, fantasy and history to imagine a mythic world, a lost child, a 177-year-old witch, a deadly regal chancellor, and a mystery with many answers.  Moon Witch, Spider King is part adventure tale, part chronicle of an indomitable woman.1. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan2. The Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake3. Vurt by Jeff Noon4. Persuasion by Jane Austen5. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi6. The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune7. The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

5x15 presents: Isabel Allende - novelist, feminist & philanthropist - in conversation about her new novel Violeta with journalist Alex Clark Isabel Allende is one of the most widely-read authors in the world, having sold more than 75 million books which have been translated into 42 languages. Join 5x15 for this exclusive launch event for her unmissable new novel Violeta. Allende won worldwide acclaim in 1982 with the publication of her first novel, The House of the Spirits. Since then, she has authored more than twenty-five bestselling and critically acclaimed books, including Daughter of Fortune, Island Beneath the Sea, Paula, The Japanese Lover, A Long Petal of the Sea, and her most recent memoir, The Soul of a Woman. Allende's works always entertain and educate readers interweaving imaginative stories with significant historical events. Her new novel is the epic story of Violeta del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century. Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920. Violeta recounts devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, times of both poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy, and a life shaped by some of the most important events of history: the fight for women's rights, the rise and fall of tyrants and, ultimately, not one but two pandemics. Through the eyes of a woman whose unforgettable passion, determination, and sense of humour will carry her through a lifetime of upheaval, Isabel Allende once more brings us an epic that is both fiercely inspiring and deeply emotional. In addition to her work as a writer, Allende devotes much of her time to human rights causes. She has received fifteen honorary doctorates, including one from Harvard University, was inducted into the California Hall of Fame, received the PEN Center Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014, President Barack Obama awarded Allende the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Alex Clark is a critic, journalist and broadcaster who lives in London, and has been Artistic Director for Words and Literature at the Bath Festival. She writes on a wide range of subjects for the Guardian, the Observer, the Spectator and the Times Literary Supplement. She has judged many literary awards, including the 2008 Man Booker prize. She regularly chairs live events, appears on radio and is the host of a monthly podcast for Vintage publishing. 5x15 brings together outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

Yann Martel is the author of Life of Pi, the #1 international bestseller and winner of the 2002 Man Booker (among other prizes). He is also the award-winning author of The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (winner of the Journey Prize), Self, Beatrice & Virgil, and 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. Born in Spain in 1963, Martel studied philosophy at Trent University, worked at odd jobs—tree planter, dishwasher, security guard—and traveled widely before turning to writing. He lives in Saskatoon, Canada, with the writer Alice Kuipers* and their four children.
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Yann Martel is the author of Life of Pi, the #1 international bestseller and winner of the 2002 Man Booker (among other prizes). He is also the award-winning author of The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (winner of the Journey Prize), Self, Beatrice & Virgil, and 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. Born in Spain in 1963, Martel studied philosophy at Trent University, worked at odd jobs—tree planter, dishwasher, security guard—and traveled widely before turning to writing. He lives in Saskatoon, Canada, with the writer Alice Kuipers* and their four children. · www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/19175/yann-martel/· www.creativeprocess.info

Novelist Marlon James and Historian Vincent Brown will crack open their ideas in a unique conversation centered on Jamaica. The island is a lynchpin in world history, and a wellspring of world culture. Both men won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in this vein: James in 2015 for "A Brief History of Seven Killings" and Brown this year for "Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War." They are enthusiastic readers of each other's work.rnrnBrown is the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He explores the political dimensions of cultural practice in the African Diaspora. "Tacky's Revolt" tracks the coordinated uprising of enslaved people in Jamaica in 1760-1761 that influenced the contemporary world's notions of race and war.rnrnJames is the first Jamaican to win a Man Booker prize, also for "A Brief History of Seven Killings," a polyphonic novel put in motion by the 1976 assassination attempt on Bob Marley. His newest series, described as an African "Game of Thrones," began with "Black Leopard, Red Wolf" in 2019. It resumes in February with "Moon Witch, Spider King." James is on the English faculty at Macalester College.rnrnJoin the City Club at noon Tuesday, November 16, for a virtual conversation with these virtuosos of history and literature.

My guest this week is a novelist, film-maker - and Zen Buddhist priest. Ruth Ozeki was born in Conneticut in the 1950s to a Japanese mother and, as she puts it, caucasian anthropologist father. Despite always wanting to write, she didn't publish her first novel until she was 40, because, in part, she “didn't feel entitled to”. She needn't have worried. That novel, My Year Of Meats, won the Kiriyama Prize and the American Book Award, and her third A Tale For The Time Being, was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2013. Her latest novel, The Book Of Form And Emptiness, looks destined to go the same way.But buddhism has informed Ruth's life just as much as - if not more than - writing. She joined me to run the conversational gamut! We talked meditation, ageing, grief, living through the death of our parents, writing out her teenage mental health crises, why objects mean so much to us, the appeal of Marie Kondo, coming to terms with our ageing face and why menopause and adolescence have so much in common.• You can buy all the books mentioned in this podcast at Bookshop.org, including The Book Of Form And Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki and the book that inspired this podcast, The Shift: how I lost and found myself after 40 - and you can too, by me!• The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker is created and hosted by Sam Baker and edited by Emily Sandford. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it really does help other people find us. And let me know what you think on twitter @sambaker or instagram @theothersambaker. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode of Traverse Talks with Sueann Ramella, author Chigozie Obioma talks about how his time in Cyprus for school and growing up in Nigeria shaped his work, the types of racism he has experience in his travels and the meaning behind his name. Chigozie last two books were finalists for the Man Booker… Continue Reading 15. Chigozie Obioma

Margaret Atwood, in conversation, recorded on September 14, 2000 with hosts Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, during the book tour for “The Blind Assassin.” In this interview, heard in its entirety for the first time, Margaret Atwood takes an in-depth look at her Man Booker winning novel, “The Blind Assassin,: along with forays into the world of pulp magazines, life in Canada during the depression, Canada's response to the Lincoln Brigade, and a deep dive into her writing practices. Margaret Atwood was interviewed seven times for Probabilities/Bookwaves, starting in 1989 with the last interview to date in 2013. This interview, recorded during her book tour for “The Blind Assassin,” which would win the Booker Prize in 2000 and was named Time magazine's Book of the year, was conducted on September 14th 2000, and was the last Atwood interview to feature the show's late co-host, Richard A. Lupoff. Other Radio Wolinsky interviews with Margaret Atwood: 1989: The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye 1993: The Robber Bride 1997: Alias Grace The post Margaret Atwood IV, 2000: “The Blind Assassin” appeared first on KPFA.

Yann Martel is the author of Life of Pi, the #1 international bestseller and winner of the 2002 Man Booker (among other prizes). He is also the award-winning author of The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (winner of the Journey Prize), Self, Beatrice & Virgil, and 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. Born in Spain in 1963, Martel studied philosophy at Trent University, worked at odd jobs—tree planter, dishwasher, security guard—and traveled widely before turning to writing. He lives in Saskatoon, Canada, with the writer Alice Kuipers* and their four children. · www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/19175/yann-martel/· www.creativeprocess.info

Yann Martel is the author of Life of Pi, the #1 international bestseller and winner of the 2002 Man Booker (among other prizes). He is also the award-winning author of The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (winner of the Journey Prize), Self, Beatrice & Virgil, and 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. Born in Spain in 1963, Martel studied philosophy at Trent University, worked at odd jobs—tree planter, dishwasher, security guard—and traveled widely before turning to writing. He lives in Saskatoon, Canada, with the writer Alice Kuipers* and their four children.
· www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/19175/yann-martel/· www.creativeprocess.info

"Because, after all, the Trojan War is a mythical war. It's a fragment that has been painted upon by generations of artists. It is fictional. It's a profoundly fictional work that has formed the Greek people, just as the Gospels are works of fiction. We have no historical accounts of Jesus. We only have artistic accounts, metaphorical accounts–the Gospels. Jesus is not a historical figure. There is nothing written directly about him. It's interesting to me that the West has been shaped by two works of fiction, The Iliad and The Odyssey and the Gospels, which are prehistoric artistic works. The West has two feet. They're both fictional feet, and after that we started being rational and reasonable."Yann Martel is the author of Life of Pi, the #1 international bestseller and winner of the 2002 Man Booker (among other prizes). He is also the award-winning author of The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (winner of the Journey Prize), Self, Beatrice & Virgil, and 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. Born in Spain in 1963, Martel studied philosophy at Trent University, worked at odd jobs—tree planter, dishwasher, security guard—and traveled widely before turning to writing. He lives in Saskatoon, Canada, with the writer Alice Kuipers* and their four children.
· www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/19175/yann-martel/· www.creativeprocess.info

Yann Martel is the author of Life of Pi, the #1 international bestseller and winner of the 2002 Man Booker (among other prizes). He is also the award-winning author of The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (winner of the Journey Prize), Self, Beatrice & Virgil, and 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. Born in Spain in 1963, Martel studied philosophy at Trent University, worked at odd jobs—tree planter, dishwasher, security guard—and traveled widely before turning to writing. He lives in Saskatoon, Canada, with the writer Alice Kuipers* and their four children. · www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/19175/yann-martel/· www.creativeprocess.info

Yann Martel is the author of Life of Pi, the #1 international bestseller and winner of the 2002 Man Booker (among other prizes). He is also the award-winning author of The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (winner of the Journey Prize), Self, Beatrice & Virgil, and 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. Born in Spain in 1963, Martel studied philosophy at Trent University, worked at odd jobs—tree planter, dishwasher, security guard—and traveled widely before turning to writing. He lives in Saskatoon, Canada, with the writer Alice Kuipers* and their four children.
· www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/19175/yann-martel/· www.creativeprocess.info

Yann Martel is the author of Life of Pi, the #1 international bestseller and winner of the 2002 Man Booker (among other prizes). He is also the award-winning author of The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (winner of the Journey Prize), Self, Beatrice & Virgil, and 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. Born in Spain in 1963, Martel studied philosophy at Trent University, worked at odd jobs—tree planter, dishwasher, security guard—and traveled widely before turning to writing. He lives in Saskatoon, Canada, with the writer Alice Kuipers* and their four children. · www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/19175/yann-martel/· www.creativeprocess.info

“Today, she'd brought him daffodils to brighten the room. ‘Women can bring men flowers too, you know.' She smiled, sensing his hesitation as she arranged them in an empty milk bottle. Already, the buds were opening and adding a bright splash of buttery yellow to his room. She placed them next to the neat stack of books and papers and then picked up the one that was marked: A Handbook for Students from Overseas. She studied what he'd underlined and smiled as she read aloud from the section on Habits and Customs. ‘It says here that when two people meet and they wish to save themselves from the embarrassment of silence, they usually talk about the weather. Did we talk about the weather when we first met?'” - Sarah Ladipo Manyika Sarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya, France, and England. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and taught literature at San Francisco State University. Sarah currently serves on the boards of Hedgebrook and the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane sat in conversation with Sarah to discuss her first novel In Dependence. The book has sold over 1 million copies worldwide. Man Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo describes this debut as ‘A beautiful and ambitious novel'. The novel spans over several decades starting in the early sixties, where we meet Tayo Ajayi in Nigeria on his way to England to study at Oxford University on a scholarship. While at Oxford he discovers a whole generation excited about a new and better world. He meets a number of young womxn but he is fascinated by Vanessa Richardson, a daughter of a former colonial officer. Their love story, which spans over four decades, is a bittersweet tale of many twists and turns, and the universal desire to fall truly, madly and deeply in love. This debut novel is stunning. The storytelling sublime. The writing is ‘clean as bone'. The characters are written in a delicate and complex manner. Sarah tells the history and its nuances with skill and care. This conversation explores the love story between Tayo and Vanessa, through the decades, across continents and with opposing forces. The love story allows us to reminisce about the music throughout the decades as well as the political conversations of that moment. In the conversation, we discuss interracial dating, race and the politics of geography. We talk to the complexities of contemporary Africa, patriarchy, feminism and culture. We speak about Sarah's literary influences including the great Toni Morrison. We take a short pause to discuss her sophomore novel Like a Mule Bringing Ice-cream to the Sun' This conversation, like the book, was delicious, rich and filled with lightbulb moments. Follow Sarah on facebook: Sarah Ladipo Manyika

Stephen Merchant has written and directed the feature film Fighting with my Family, which tells the unlikely true story of a young British woman from Norwich who found fame on the women's wrestling circuit in America. Merchant discusses going in at the deep end and working alongside former champion wrestler and Hollywood star Dwayne ‘The Rock' Johnson. Arifa Akbar reviews new books by Leila Aboulela (Bird Summons), Oyinkan Braithwaite (My Sister the Serial Killer) and 2015 Man Booker winner Marlon James (Black Leopard, Red Wolf).Theatre company Clean Break has been working with women with experience of the criminal justice system for 40 years. In their anniversary year, Front Row talks to joint artistic director Roisin McBrinn and Clean Break member Jennifer Joseph. Jennifer co-created and stars in the company's latest show, Inside Bitch, which challenges the portrayal of women's prisons on our screens.Presenter: Stig Abell Producer: Timothy Prosser

Roma, the black and white Mexican film about a young domestic worker in Mexico City in the 1970s, won Best Film at the Baftas on Sunday and is up for the same at the Oscars. The film's producer, Gabriela Rodriguez, talks about the background to director Alfonso Cuarón's personal project which draws on his own childhood, and discusses their working relationship. The death has been announced of the acclaimed author Andrea Levy. Her fiction, including the Orange Prize-winning Small Island and the Man Booker-longlisted and recently televised The Long Song, chronicled the experience of generations from the Caribbean who lived through slavery and emigration. Her friend and fellow writer Louise Doughty pays tribute. The architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw's buildings include the Eden Project, the International Terminal at Waterloo Station and the National Space Centre in Leicester. He is one of a group of architects including Terry Farrell, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster who became the leading architects of the late 20th century not just in Britain but around the world. He discusses his long career in the week that he's been awarded the 2019 Royal Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects.Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Sarah JohnsonMain image: Roma Photo credit: Netflix

“Although this, of course, was not strictly true: I so desired Maureen that at times I temporarily lost my mind, any sense of restraint. That I imagined, with a sudden swell of emotions and enlightenment, how desperately I craved Greek salad: cucumbers. Lettuce, onion rings and baby tomatoes, only dressed with her springs, her womanly eruptions resultant from our imagined carnal sieges.” – Nthikeng Mohlele, Micheal K: a novel This month Nthikeng Mohlele will publish his sixth Novel llumination, which he describes as “…an exploration of the nature and pitfalls of an artistic life. The backbone of the narrative is essentially a love story, but also how the charges and passions inherent in art, particularly music, interface and become transformed when fused with passions and anxieties of a more personal and discreet kind” Bearing this great milestone in mind, we are cheekily releasing this conversation, where Dr-Alma-Nalisha sat in conversation with the award-winning author. Nthikeng published his first book The Scent of Bliss in 2008 and he has also written other acclaimed novels including Pleasure, a novel that won various awards including the 2017 University of Johannesburg Prize for the K. Sello Duiker Memorial Prize. His fifth novel, – Micheal K - is a response to JM Coetzee's 1983 Man Booker prize winner Life and Times of Micheal K. The novel explores the weight of history and of conscience. Zakes Mda describes the writing in this book as “a work of reflective intensity, re-imagining character from JM Coetzee's world of stark and sparse prose”. During this enlightening conversation, Nthikeng described the writing process and the inspiration of the book, which would've intimidated a perhaps lesser writer. Further to this, he shared his thoughts about how pivotal it is for readers and writers to read their contemporary writers. He spoke about some of his favourite writers including the likes of Zukiswa Wanner, Yewende Omotoso, Sue Nyathi and Niq Mhlongo. He also blesses us with a list of 5 books to read which include the works of the late Professor Kgositsile. Bold, brave and inspiring. This podcast is a master class in literature and re-imagining. Twitter: @nthikengmohlele

SHOWNOTES FROM EPISODE 12:Shuchi's website where you can find links to her writing and beautiful instagramThe Brookline Booksmith Transnational Literature Series website which includes their past selections and the WGBH Forum link of recorded author eventsThe Wellspring House Writer's retreatBOOKS and films we discussed:Salt Houses by Hala AlyanWajib the fantastic film by Annemarie Jacir (with an incredible real life father-son duo starring!)Disoriental by Negar DjavadiExit West by Mohsin HamidAmerican Fictionary by Dubrakva UgresicPoso Wells by Gabriela AlemanSabrina by Nick Drnaso - 1st graphic novel longlisted for the Man Booker!Edward Said's Reflections on Exile and Other EssaysSHUCHI'S BOOKSTORE PICKS:Titcomb's Bookshop if you're ever in East Sandwich on Cape CodEducational Bookshop in JerusalemSkylight Books in LACity Lights in San FranciscoSpecial thanks to Mohit Shandilya & Rajat Upadhyay @ Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

Why We Need the Novel Now. Man Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson delivers a keynote lecture and talks to presenter Shahidha Bari and an audience at the Southbank Centre in London as part of the Man Booker 50 Festival. In the age of Twitter and no-platforming, Jacobson argues that the novel has never been more necessary. Howard Jacobson won the Man Booker Prize in 2010 for The Finkler Question and was shortlisted for J in 2014Producer: Zahid Warley