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In which we discuss the Prime Minister during the opening years of the Depression, and how he mostly struggled to keep things running... --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Sources/Further Reading Bowering, George. Egotists & Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada, Penguin, 2000. Caricature #1 -- Caricature #2 -- Caricature #3 MacLean, Andrew D. R.B. Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada. Excelsior Publishing, 1935 Ondaatje, Christopher. The Prime Ministers of Canada, 1867-1967. Canyon Press, 1967. Werthman, William C., ed. Canada in Cartoon: A Pictorial History of the Confederation Years 1867-1967. Brunswick Press, 1967.

Four wounded souls try to endure the end of WW2 in a bombed out Tuscan monastery. Ondaatje's novel digs into these liminal lives as they project themselves onto the blank slate that is [dramatic music] the English patient.This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/overdue and get on your way to being your best self.Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.Follow @overduepod on Instagram and BlueskyAdvertise on OverdueSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sri Lankan-born Canadian essayist, poet, and Booker Prize-winning novelist Michael Ondaatje recently released a stunning collection of poems. Ondaatje is now 80 years old and it's almost half a century since he published his first novel; even longer since he first published poetry. On this episode of Read This he joins Michael for a conversation about A Year of Last Things and why writing remains such a joyful act of discovery.

Sri Lankan-born Canadian essayist, poet, and Booker Prize-winning novelist Michael Ondaatje has just released a stunning collection of poems. Ondaatje is now 80 years old and it's almost half a century since he published his first novel; even longer since he first published poetry. This week, Michael joins Read This for a conversation about A Year of Last Things and why writing remains such a joyful act of discovery.Reading list:Coming Through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje, 1976In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje, 1986The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems, Michael Ondaatje, 1989The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje, 1992Handwriting, Michael Ondaatje, 1998Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje, 2000Divisadero, Michael Ondaatje, 2007The Cat's Table, Michael Ondaatje, 2011Warlight, Michael Ondaatje, 2018A Year of Last Things, Michael Ondaatje, 2024The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin, 2013Socials: Stay in touch with Read This on Instagram and TwitterGuest: Michael OndaatjeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sri Lankan-born Canadian essayist, poet, and Booker Prize-winning novelist Michael Ondaatje has just released a stunning collection of poems. Ondaatje is now 80 years old and it's almost half a century since he published his first novel; even longer since he first published poetry. This week, Michael joins Read This for a conversation about A Year of Last Things and why writing remains such a joyful act of discovery. Reading list: Coming Through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje, 1976 In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje, 1986 The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems, Michael Ondaatje, 1989 The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje, 1992 Handwriting, Michael Ondaatje, 1998 Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje, 2000 Divisadero, Michael Ondaatje, 2007 The Cat's Table, Michael Ondaatje, 2011 Warlight, Michael Ondaatje, 2018 A Year of Last Things, Michael Ondaatje, 2024 The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin, 2013 Socials: Stay in touch with Read This on Instagram and Twitter Guest: Michael Ondaatje

In which we discuss the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike in relation to Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion (1987). We get unhinged as we discuss strike tactics, modernism/postmodernism, and Christmas. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources/Further Reading: 1919: 100 Years Later. CBC, 2019. Masters, Donald C. The Winnipeg General Strike, University of Toronto Press, 1950. Ondaatje, Michael. In the Skin of a Lion, Vintage, 1987. Spinks, Lee. “In the Skin of a Lion.” Michael Ondaatje, Manchester University Press, 2009, pp. 137–70.

One of the world's most celebrated writers, Michael Ondaatje is the author of such acclaimed works as Running in the Family, Anil's Ghost, In the Skin of a Lion and The English Patient, which won the 2018 Golden Man Booker Prize, named the best novel of the Booker's 50-year history. His writing, both poetry and prose, is often rooted in history – from Toronto in the early 1900s, to North Africa during the Second World War, to Ondaatje's childhood in Sri Lanka. He recently won the Grand Prix for lifetime achievement from Montreal's Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival.

We're joined by friend and journalist Phil Chaffee to discuss FREE by Lea Ypi, a memoir of her Albanian childhood and of life amid the collapse of Communism. The book won the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje prize and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford non-fiction prize and was on many a best-book of 2022 list. Both our book clubs read this one, but what did they make of it? We'll be reporting back. We're also discussing THE SNOW BALL by Brigid Brophy, a swirling, sensual feast that takes place over one night at a New Year's Eve masquerade ball. The novel was published in 1964 and was something of a scandalous sensation at the time. It has recently been re-released to much acclaim, but what did Kate's book club think of it? We'll also have some trusty follow-on recommendations to help you find your next great read. Booklist BORDER by Kapka Kassabova SECONDHAND TIME by Svetlana Alexievich HOMELAND ELEGIES by Ayad Akhtar MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY by Winifred Watson 50 GREAT WORKS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE WE COULD DO WITHOUT by Brigid Brophy, Michael Levey and Charles Osborne. Let us know your thoughts, we love to hear from you. Find us on Instagram @bookclubreviewpodcast, on Twitter @bookclubrvwpod or email us at thebookclubrevew@gmail.com. You can also check out the episode page on our website, thebookclubreview.co.uk, where you'll also find full shownotes and a transcript. If you enjoy our shows please support us by telling your bookish friends – we love to reach new listeners.

Da Lea Ypi var liten, så hun på Stalin og Albanias leder Enver Hoxha som trygge farsfigurer, hun likte at lærerinnen Nora hadde enkle svar på alt, og det hun ønsket seg mest av alt var å bli pioner. Men når det kommunistiske regimet faller i 1991, forstår unge Lea at ingenting er som hun har trodd. Har hele livet hennes vært en løgn?I boka Fri. En oppvekst ved historiens ende (til norsk ved Inger Sverreson Holmes) skildrer Ypi en oppvekst utenom det vanlige: Før hun ble myndig hadde hun opplevd et kommunistisk regime og dets fall, nyliberalismen som overtok og en grufull borgerkrig. Med sanselighet, detaljrikdom og en stor dose humor gir Ypi leseren et unikt innblikk i Albanias nyere historie og brytninger mellom ideologier og politiske og økonomiske interesser.Lea Ypi er oppvokst i Albania, men er i dag professor i politisk teori ved London School of Economics, der hun blant annet underviser om marxisme. Memoarboka Fri ble tildelt Ondaatje-prisen og kåret til en av årets beste bøker, blant annet i The New Yorker og Financial Times.På Litteraturhuset møter Ypi Marianne Marthinsen til samtale. Marthinsen er forfatter av både skjønnlitteratur og sakprosa. Hun har lang fartstid fra AUF og Arbeiderpartiet, og satt på Stortinget for Arbeiderpartiet fra 2005 til 2021. Hun jobber i dag i Finans Norge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As a little girl, Lea Ypi regarded Stalin and Albania's leader Enver Hoxha as dependable father figures, she liked how her teacher Nora har simple answers to everything, and what she wanted most of all, was to be named a pioneer. But when the communist regime falls in 1991, the young Lea suddenly realizes that nothing is truly like she thought. Has her whole life been a lie?In her memoir Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, Ypi depicts an unusual childhood: Before she came of age, she had lived trough a communist regime and its fall, the neoliberal society that succeeded it, as well as a ghastly civil war. With acute awareness, attention to detail and no small amount of wit, Ypi offers her reader a unique insight into Albania's recent history and contention between ideologies and political and economic interests.With her childhood in Albania, Lea Ypi is today a professor of political theory at London School of Economics, where she, among other things, teaches Marxism. Her memoir Free was awarded the Ondaatje prize and named one of the best books of 2022 by both The New Yorker and Fincancial Times.At the House of Literature, Ypi will be joined in conversation by Marianne Marthinsen. Marthinsen is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Her background is from Norway's Worker's Youth League and the Labour Party, which she represented in parliament between 2005 and 2021. Today, she works for Finance Norway. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps's book Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje (Academic Studies Press, 2022) demonstrates how world fiction by Woolf, Foucault, and Ondaatje counters biopolitics with aesthetic and political-biopoetic-strategies producing transhistorical, transnational experiences offered to the reader for collective responsibility. It defines and explores heterotopic processes fostering a slant perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war. Dr. Iqra Shagufta Cheema writes and teaches about digital cultures, transnational feminisms, postcolonial literatures, global cinema, and inclusive pedagogy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Note: Sadly, Dr. Marie-Christine Leps passed away before the book came out. Via this conversation, we pay homage to her work that went into the making of this book and to her memories. After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps's book Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje (Academic Studies Press, 2022) focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population) and the counterdevelopment of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of freedom) realized in texts by Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Michael Ondaatje. Their world fiction produces transhistorical, transnational experiences offered to the reader for collective responsibility in these critical times. Their books function as heterotopias: spaces and processes that recall and confront regimes of recognized truths to dismantle fixed identities and actualize possibilities for becoming other. Higgins and Leps define and explore a slant, biopoetic perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war. Iqra Shagufta Cheema writes and teaches in the areas of digital cultures, postcolonial literatures, transnational digital feminisms, gender and sexuality studies, and global south film studies. Check out their latest book: The Other #MeToos. Follow them on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps's book Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje (Academic Studies Press, 2022) demonstrates how world fiction by Woolf, Foucault, and Ondaatje counters biopolitics with aesthetic and political-biopoetic-strategies producing transhistorical, transnational experiences offered to the reader for collective responsibility. It defines and explores heterotopic processes fostering a slant perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war. Dr. Iqra Shagufta Cheema writes and teaches about digital cultures, transnational feminisms, postcolonial literatures, global cinema, and inclusive pedagogy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps's book Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje (Academic Studies Press, 2022) demonstrates how world fiction by Woolf, Foucault, and Ondaatje counters biopolitics with aesthetic and political-biopoetic-strategies producing transhistorical, transnational experiences offered to the reader for collective responsibility. It defines and explores heterotopic processes fostering a slant perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war. Dr. Iqra Shagufta Cheema writes and teaches about digital cultures, transnational feminisms, postcolonial literatures, global cinema, and inclusive pedagogy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps's book Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje (Academic Studies Press, 2022) demonstrates how world fiction by Woolf, Foucault, and Ondaatje counters biopolitics with aesthetic and political-biopoetic-strategies producing transhistorical, transnational experiences offered to the reader for collective responsibility. It defines and explores heterotopic processes fostering a slant perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war. Dr. Iqra Shagufta Cheema writes and teaches about digital cultures, transnational feminisms, postcolonial literatures, global cinema, and inclusive pedagogy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps' book Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje (Academic Studies Press, 2023) focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population) and the counterdevelopment of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of freedom) realized in texts by Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Michael Ondaatje. Their world fiction produces transhistorical, transnational experiences offered to the reader for collective responsibility in these critical times. Their books function as heterotopias: spaces and processes that recall and confront regimes of recognized truths to dismantle fixed identities and actualize possibilities for becoming other. Higgins and Leps define and explore a slant, biopoetic perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps' book Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje (Academic Studies Press, 2023) focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population) and the counterdevelopment of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of freedom) realized in texts by Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Michael Ondaatje. Their world fiction produces transhistorical, transnational experiences offered to the reader for collective responsibility in these critical times. Their books function as heterotopias: spaces and processes that recall and confront regimes of recognized truths to dismantle fixed identities and actualize possibilities for becoming other. Higgins and Leps define and explore a slant, biopoetic perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps' book Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje (Academic Studies Press, 2023) focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population) and the counterdevelopment of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of freedom) realized in texts by Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Michael Ondaatje. Their world fiction produces transhistorical, transnational experiences offered to the reader for collective responsibility in these critical times. Their books function as heterotopias: spaces and processes that recall and confront regimes of recognized truths to dismantle fixed identities and actualize possibilities for becoming other. Higgins and Leps define and explore a slant, biopoetic perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps' book Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje (Academic Studies Press, 2023) focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population) and the counterdevelopment of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of freedom) realized in texts by Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Michael Ondaatje. Their world fiction produces transhistorical, transnational experiences offered to the reader for collective responsibility in these critical times. Their books function as heterotopias: spaces and processes that recall and confront regimes of recognized truths to dismantle fixed identities and actualize possibilities for becoming other. Higgins and Leps define and explore a slant, biopoetic perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

On today's episode W. Scott Olsen is talking to David Ondaatje, Canadian-born, US-based photographer, filmmaker, writer, and businessman who studied at both Harvard and Cambridge universities before pursuing a career in art and commerce. This podcast is brought to you by FRAMES - high quality quarterly printed photography magazine. You can find out more about FRAMES over at www.readframes.com.Find our more about FRAMES:FRAMES MagazineFRAMES Instagram feedFRAMES Facebook Group

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Michael Ondaatje, in full Philip Michael Ondaatje, (born September 12, 1943, Colombo, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]), is a Canadian novelist and poet whose musical prose and poetry were created from a blend of myth, history, jazz, memoirs, and other forms. Ondaatje immigrated to Montreal when he was 19 and received a B.A. in English from the University of Toronto in 1965 and an M.A. from Queen's University in 1967. His first collection of poetry, The Dainty Monsters (1967), is a series of lyrics that juxtapose everyday life with mythology. It was praised for its unique blend of primitive and domestic imagery. Ondaatje's fascination with the lore of the American West led to one of his most celebrated works, the 1970 pastiche The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems. Often called a parable of the artist as outlaw, the work contains poems, prose, photographs, interviews, and even comic books, which combined create a meditation on the nature of heroism and violence. His collection titled Secular Love(1984) contains poetry about the breakup of his marriage. His other poetry collections include The Cinnamon Peeler (1989) and Handwriting: Poems (1998).Ondaatje's prose works, better known than his poetry, included Coming Through Slaughter (1976), a novel about the descent into insanity of the New Orleans jazz musician Buddy Bolden; Running in the Family (1982), his memoirs about life in Ceylon; and In the Skin of a Lion (1987), a novel about the clash between rich and poor in early 20th-century Toronto. Two characters from this novel, Hana and Caravaggio, also appear in The English Patient (1992; film 1996), which takes place in an Italian villa that is being used as a hospital during World War II. Noted for the richly described interior lives of its characters, The English Patient was cowinner of the Booker Prize in 1992. Subsequent novels included Anil's Ghost (2000), set in Sri Lanka amid the political violence of the 1980s and '90s, and Divisadero (2007). The Cat's Table (2011)—its title referencing the table farthest from the captain's table on a cruise ship—chronicles a voyage from Sri Lanka to England in the 1950s from the perspective of an 11-year-old boy and his two comrades. In Warlight (2018) a teenage boy and his sister are left with two mysterious men when their parents move to Singapore after World War II.From https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michael-Ondaatje. For more information about Michael Ondaatje:“Michael Ondaatje”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/michael-ondaatjeThe English Patient: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/124597/the-english-patient-by-michael-ondaatje-introduction-by-pico-iyer/“Michael Ondaatje: By the Book”: ​​https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/books/review/michael-ondaatje-by-the-book.html

Join 5x15 to hear bestselling author James Rebanks as he reflects on his prize-winning new book, English Pastoral; the countryside we've inherited, and the legacy we want to leave. James Rebanks is a shepherd based in the Lake District, where his family have lived and worked for over six hundred years. His No.1 bestselling debut, The Shepherd's Life, won the Lake District Book of the Year, was shortlisted for the Wainwright and Ondaatje prizes, and has been translated into sixteen languages. His second book, English Pastoral, was also a Top Ten bestseller and was named the Sunday Times Nature Book of the Year. Heralded as a ‘masterpiece' by the New Statesman, it was shortlisted for the Ondaatje prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, and longlisted for the Rathbones Folio prize. With thanks for your generous support for 5x15 online. 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

James is an old-fashioned farmer based in England's The Lake District where his family have lived and worked for over 600 years. He's the author of the bestselling memoir The Shephard's Life which won the Lake District book of the year, was shortlisted for the Wainwright and Ondaatje prizes and translated into sixteen languages. It speaks of his life's work and his profound connection to the land. It resonated around the world, as have his photos and words on social media where he's become a sensation.James' new book is called English Pastoral and as with the first, it feels like a kind of love song to his father and grandfather. It continues the conversation from The Shephard's Life sharing personal anecdotes and observations but also looks at the big picture and the consequences of large scale industrial farming and the loss of ancient rhythms of work. It's about what farming was like in James' childhood and what it has become, not just in England but across the world. It's devastating to read about this ‘total war on nature' and while there's a lot of grief about what has been lost, there's also hope, showing what we can learn from the old ways to reinvigorate our natural landscapes. And James' writing, his descriptions of the wilds, the animals and his farm is luminous – the book really is a revelation.

Gavin Francis is an award-winning writer and GP. He is the author of four books of non-fiction, including Adventures in Human Being, which was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the Saltire Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award, and Empire Antarctica, which won Scottish Book of the Year in the SMIT Awards and was shortlisted for both the Ondaatje and Costa Prizes. He has written for the Guardian, The Times, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. His work is published in eighteen languages. His latest book is Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hannah MacInnes joins James Rebanks, farmer and author, on The Klosters Forum Feed & Flourish Podcast series, to discuss the topic of biodiversity and ways in which we can transform our food systems in order to positively preserve our planet. His No.1 bestselling debut, The Shepherd's Life, won the Lake District Book of the Year, was shortlisted for the Wainwright and Ondaatje prizes, and has been translated into sixteen languages. His second book, the English Pastoral is the story of an inheritance: one that affects us all. It tells of how rural landscapes around the world have been brought close to collapse, and the age-old rhythms of work, weather, community and wild things are being lost.

Branko Cestnik: Sonce Petovione Sylvia Plath: Ljubezenska pesem norega dekleta Michael Ondaatje Luč vojne Marija Klobčar: Poslušaj štimo mojo Recenzije so napisali Miša Gams, Veronika Šoster, Ana Geršak in Iztok Ilich.

durée : 00:59:13 - Le Temps des écrivains - par : Christophe Ono-dit-Biot - Une rencontre entre l’auteur du « Patient Anglais » qui publie « Ombres sur la Tamise », et Chantal Thomas, spécialiste de Sade et de l’esprit XVIIIe, pour « East Village Blues ». Une émission placée sous le signe du bel usage que l'on peut faire de sa mémoire... - réalisation : Jean-Christophe Francis

durée : 00:59:13 - Le Temps des écrivains - par : Christophe Ono-dit-Biot - Une rencontre entre l’auteur du « Patient Anglais » qui publie « Ombres sur la Tamise », et Chantal Thomas, spécialiste de Sade et de l’esprit XVIIIe, pour « East Village Blues ». Une émission placée sous le signe du bel usage que l'on peut faire de sa mémoire... - réalisation : Jean-Christophe Francis

This week's Verb looks at writing from the Caribbean diaspora. The poet Roger Robinson won the T.S. Eliot award and the Ondaatje prize for his collection 'A Portable Paradise' (Peepal Tree). Roger explains how the title poem, with it's theme of finding paradise inside yourself, has been taken to heart by many in the age of Covid-19. Ingrid Persaud won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2018, and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017, and Love After Love (Faber) is her debut novel. Set in Trinidad, the novel centers on an unconventional family unit and examines questions of unconditional love and the legacy of violence. Writer, Poet and Theatre Maker Malika Booker was the first Poet in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her work in progress involves marrying the language King James Bible with the languages and culture of the Caribbean. Jacob Sam La Rose was born in the UK and his family are from Guyana. He has always felt he inhabits a liminal space between these cultures which has inspired his poetry. His collection, Breaking The Silence is published by Bloodaxe. Jacob shares brand new poems 'The Truth and Nothing But' and 'For The Young Men Popping Wheelies on Southwark Street in Late Afternoon Traffic' Presenter: Ian McMillan Producer: Cecile Wright

En ce dimanche 7 juin 2020, c’est une dernière émission consacrée au cycle de la Rêverie. On entendra le deuxième volet de Gemma conçu et réalisé par Léa Minod, portrait sonore émouvant d’une femme qui était aussi la grand-mère de la réalisatrice, et nous plonge dans une rêverie singulière façonnée par la parole familiale. “Gemma était belle à faire fondre les hommes, elle ressemblait à Monica Vitti. Jeune italienne, blonde, les yeux bleus, la peau mate, menue et gracieuse. Grandie en Tunisie dans les années 40, 50. Dans le faste de l’après-guerre. Elle rayonne, séduit. Gemma était ma grand-mère. Mais elle est morte bien avant que je vienne au monde. Restée figée, glacée dans les bouches de ses trois filles. Elles en parlent tant que j’ai le sentiment de la connaître mieux que tous mes autres grands-parents. Fantôme ou Mythe familial. J’ai pensé qu’en essayant de recomposer son portrait, j’allais pouvoir l’apprivoiser. Voici le deuxième volet de Gemma : La chute.” Puis, on écoutera l’oeuvre d’Angela Shackel, Lazaro’s Dream, une envoûtante traversée dans la ville de Toronto, dans le quartier de Danforth, où se mêle imaginaire urbain et paysage surréaliste. L’oeuvre s’inscrit directement dans la lignée inspirante du poète et romancier canadien Michael Ondaatje. “Before the real city could be seen, it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting. — Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion “Taking its inspiration from Michael Ondaatje’s, In The Skin Of a Lion, the audio walk Lazaro’s Dream provides listeners with a haunting variation on Mr. Ondaatje’s theme of imagining the city into existence..." Lazaro’s Dream was produced for Koffler.digital and Project Bookmark Canada by Angela Shackel of Accounts and Records. https://www.constellationsaudio.com/sounds/lazaros-dream Enfin, on poursuivra notre traversée onirique avec l’oeuvre de Joaquin Cofreces, avec sa pièce sonore “Dreamland”, tout droit inspiré d’un poème d’Edgar Allan Poe. “Dream-Land” (1844) is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most consistently misread and misunderstood poems. It tells the story of a journey, moving through landscapes of oceans, valleys, caves, and forests, beyond the borders of space and time..." "This radio art piece explores the fragile line between the real and the illusion. Representing acoustically what is said in the poem, read in diverse languages by women from different places of the world such as Greenland, Brazil, México, France, Germany, India, Romania, Australia, etc. Adding “images” and information with soundscapes from where this voices come from..." Et nous terminons ce soir le dernier morceau de la saison de notre rubrique musique expérimentale. Toute l’équipe de Récréation Sonore remercie les élèves du Studio d’électroacoustique du Conservatoire de Pantin, ainsi que leurs professeurs, Marco Marini et Jonathan Prager. Nous remercions également Clarisse, qui nous a aidé à présenter ces œuvres. La saison prochaine, qui débutera le 27 septembre, nous espérons pouvoir continuer à vous faire découvrir les travaux des élèves de cette classe de composition électroacoustique. Dimanche 21 juin, vous retrouverez François pour un nouveau cycle d’émission avec notamment des créations d’Anne-Sophie Girault, Abi McNeil et de François Bordonneau. Cette émission a été produite, préparée et présentée par Anna-Livia Marchaison.

Möt poeten och författaren Michael Ondaatje i samtal med Sofia Nyblom. Ondaatje debuterade 1967 med diktsamlingen "The dainty monsters". Sedan dess har han gett ut ett stort antal romaner, bland andra "Den Engelska Patienten" (1992), som senare blev en Oscarsprisad film. 2019 är Michael Ondaatje aktuell med romanen "Lyktsken". Han har tilldelats den högsta hedersutmärkelsen av Kanada samt fått ett stort antal priser; som Booker Prize och Giller Prize. Michael Ondaatje är född i Colombo, Sri Lanka och flyttade till Kanada 1962. Sofia Nyblom är verksam som radioproducent och programledare i Sveriges Radio P2 och som musikkritiker och skribent i Svenska Dagbladet. I samarbete med Natur & Kultur. Från 16 april 2019 Jingel: Lucas Brar

durée : 00:59:13 - Le Temps des écrivains - par : Christophe Ono-dit-Biot - Cette semaine dans Le Temps des Ecrivains, une rencontre entre Michael Ondaatje, l’auteur du « Patient Anglais », qui lui a valu le Booker Prize en 1992 et qui a été adapté au cinéma par Anthony Minghella, et Chantal Thomas, spécialiste de Sade et de l’esprit XVIIIe. - réalisation : Jean-Christophe Francis - invités : Michael Ondaatje romancier, poète, réalisateur, scénariste et producteur canadien; Chantal Thomas Essayiste, romancière, directrice de recherches au CNRS; Marguerite Capelle Interprète

durée : 00:59:13 - Le Temps des écrivains - par : Christophe Ono-dit-Biot - Cette semaine dans Le Temps des Ecrivains, une rencontre entre Michael Ondaatje, l’auteur du « Patient Anglais », qui lui a valu le Booker Prize en 1992 et qui a été adapté au cinéma par Anthony Minghella, et Chantal Thomas, spécialiste de Sade et de l’esprit XVIIIe. - réalisation : Jean-Christophe Francis - invités : Michael Ondaatje romancier, poète, réalisateur, scénariste et producteur canadien; Chantal Thomas Essayiste, romancière, directrice de recherches au CNRS; Marguerite Capelle Interprète

*Science Fiction Doesn’t Have to Be Dystopian By Joyce Carol Oates Does Ted Chiang’s new collection of stories — Exhalation — support the claim that technology can be a force for human—and robotic—good? * If God Is Dead Your Time Is Everything https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/20/if-god-is-dead-your-time-is-everything By James Wood Savagely compressed, Hägglund’s argument goes something like this: If what makes our lives meaningful is that time ends, then what defines us is what Marx called “an economy of time.” * Ondaatje prize: Aida Edemariam wins for vivid biography of her grandmother https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/13/royal-society-of-literature-ondaatje-prize-aida-edemariam-the-wifes-tale Aida Edemariam’s The Wife’s Tale, a biography of her grandmother who was born in northern Ethiopia more than 100 years ago and married at the age of eight, Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje prize. * Science Fiction Doesn’t Have to Be Dystopian https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/13/science-fiction-doesnt-have-to-be-dystopian In Ted Chiang’s new collection of stories, technology can be a force for human—and robotic—good. By Joyce Carol Oates *Q&A with Mark "Magnifico" Magsayo https://sethsingletonstoryteller.com/2019/04/19/qa-with-filipino-boxing-sensation-and-wbc-featherweight-rising-star-mark-magnifico-magsayo/ Featherweight Mark Magnifico Magsayo scored a fourth-round knockout against Erick Deztroyer at The Ring Boxing Community in Singapore. * Find me On Social Media Instagram https://www.instagram.com/seththewriter/ Twitter https://twitter.com/1MoreSingleton Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SethSingletonStoryteller/ #Dystopia #Atheism #OndaatjePrize #JoyceCarolOates #MarkMagnificoMagsayo #ScienceFiction #NewYorker #StorytellingwithSeth #Boxing #Filipino #Knockout #KO #TedChiang #AidaEdemariam --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/seth-the-storyteller/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/seth-the-storyteller/support

Glenn Horowitz is an agent in the sale and placement of culturally significant archives to research institutions nationwide. Among the many authors, artists, musicians, designers, and photographers he have represented are Norman Mailer, James Salter, Deborah Eisenberg, David Foster Wallace, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Grushkin, the Magnum Group, Nadine Gordimer, and Danny Fields, to name but a few. I met Glenn in his Manhattan offices. We talked about, among other things, the imaginative "packaging of authors' archives, the maturing of research institutions, kaboosing like collections, natural sympathies, technology coming on line, letterpress printing as a nostalgic gasp, the shift to digital, Bob Dylan's archive, the Woodie Guthrie Center, the transformation of Tulsa, the Kaiser Foundation, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Watergate and the University of Texas, the importance of the creative process, New Criticism, identity politics, the melting of textual studies, the growing importance of ancillary material; Bernard Malamud, Bob Giroux, Strand Bookstore, envy, small versus major research institutes, Michael Ondaatje, Canada's lack of interest in its writers' papers, Margaret Atwood, Robertson Davies, Conrad Black, FDR, and archives as a non-traditional market. 

 Joel Deshaye and Margaret Herrick discuss their recent research on “Racialized rooms and technologies of stardom in Ondaatje’s Coming Through Slaughter” and “Katabasis and the politics of grief in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost”.

Gavin Francis qualified in medicine from Edinburgh in 1999, then spent ten years travelling, visiting all seven continents. He is the author of three books: True North, Travels in Arctic Europe (2008, 2010), Empire Antarctica, Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins (2012) which was Scottish Book of the Year 2013 and shortlisted for the Costa, Ondaatje, Banff, & Saltire Prizes, & Adventures in Human Being (2015), which won Saltire Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2015. He lives and practises medicine in Edinburgh.

Beginning at the Bookmark for Michael Ondaatje’s IN THE SKIN OF A LION, Lazaro’s Dream is an audio walk like none other. History and fiction are artfully assembled into a surreal dream-scape that carries the listener along from the east side of the Bloor Street Viaduct, through part of the Danforth neighbour and down to Riverdale Park. The pieces, written by Jules Lewis, unfolds slowly like a wandering hallucination. Memories of Toronto are fused together with original fiction and archival reimagining, leaving the listener casually drifting through a hundred years of regional history. Scattered throughout the walk, fragments of Ondaatje’s iconic text seem to float up to the surface of perception, guiding the listener through the murky world of Lazaro’s Dream.

The most notorious novel of the ‘slum fiction’ genre, Morrison’s A Child of the Jago, caused outrage, with its nihilistic depiction of a population of criminals and social outcasts. Morrison claimed that it was an eyewitness account of the real Old Nichol district of Shoreditch. Two years after publication, the rows the book engendered were ongoing in the periodical press. In this illustrated talk, author Sarah Wise (Inconvenient People, The Blackest Streets) explores the real slum that inspired his fantasy vision. Sarah Wise’s book The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum was published by Vintage in June 2009 and was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje award. Her debut, The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London, was published in 2004 and was shortlisted for the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. Sarah was a major contributor to Iain Sinclair’s compendium London, City of Disappearances (2006). Her latest book, Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad Doctors in Victorian England was published last autumn by Vintage.

Ondaatje discusses his turn from concealment to revelation and reflects on the magic of youth.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Michael Ondaatje, Kestnbaum Writer-in-Residence at the University of Chicago, discusses his writing in poetry, fiction, memoir, and film among a large group of students. Ondaatje is known for his novel "The English Patient," which was adapted into an Oscar-winning film. Ondaatje also read from his poetry collection and answered students questions about his writing process.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Michael Ondaatje, Kestnbaum Writer-in-Residence at the University of Chicago, discusses his writing in poetry, fiction, memoir, and film among a large group of students. Ondaatje is known for his novel "The English Patient," which was adapted into an Oscar-winning film. Ondaatje also read from his poetry collection and answered students questions about his writing process.

Buddy Bolden was a jazz pioneer in turn-of-the-century New Orleans who at the age of 30 suffered a mental breakdown and was institutionalized. Topics include: the line between fact and fiction, the romanticism of mental illness, how hard it is to write well about music, and why teenagers continue to think Jim Morrison was a hero, rather than a giant asshole.

Walter Murch Music of the Spheres: Rediscovering the Harmonic Relationship among Planets Walter Murch is an Academy Award-winning film editor and sound producer, but his greatest historical contribution may yet prove to be in astronomy, where he has refined and rehabilitated an ancient observation that the planets and moons in our solar system are arranged in a harmonic relationship that gives scientific expression to the concept of “the music of the spheres.” Join Michael Lerner in this conversation about the harmonic relationship among planets—the music of the spheres. Note: This conversation relied heavily on Mr. Murch’s visual presentation, which is unavailable. Still, we found the conversation so compelling as to make it available for listening. Please familiarize yourself with this article for further understanding of Walter’s work in this area. Walter Murch Walter is an Academy Award-winning film editor and sound designer who has done celebrated work with George Lucas, Francs Ford Coppola, Anthony Minghella, and others. He is the subject of Michael Ondaatje’s The Conversations, based on their dialogues when Murch was editing Minghella’s The English Patient (based on Ondaatje’s novel). He has written an acclaimed book on film editing, In the Blink of an Eye. Find out more about The New School at tns.commonweal.org.

Christopher Ondaatje was born in the British colony of Ceylon and educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon. He moved to Canada and in 1964 was a member of the Canadian Olympic Bobsled team. He is a retired businessman with a taste for adventure, philanthropy and cricket (he is a patron of Somerset County Cricket Club). He is a member of the exclusive club of Labour's 'million plus' donors and his philanthropy does not stop there - he has also given over a million pounds to the Royal Geographical Society and the National Portrait Gallery, who named a wing of the gallery after him. Married with three children and 12 grandchildren, Mr Ondaatje is now based in London when he is not travelling the world. His lust for adventure has fuelled several books - most famously Journey to the Source of the Nile. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]Favourite track: Einleitung / Introduction by Richard Strauss Book: Anthology of Poetry by Robert Service Luxury: The Blue Nude by Justin Deranyagala

Christopher Ondaatje was born in the British colony of Ceylon and educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon. He moved to Canada and in 1964 was a member of the Canadian Olympic Bobsled team. He is a retired businessman with a taste for adventure, philanthropy and cricket (he is a patron of Somerset County Cricket Club). He is a member of the exclusive club of Labour's 'million plus' donors and his philanthropy does not stop there - he has also given over a million pounds to the Royal Geographical Society and the National Portrait Gallery, who named a wing of the gallery after him. Married with three children and 12 grandchildren, Mr Ondaatje is now based in London when he is not travelling the world. His lust for adventure has fuelled several books - most famously Journey to the Source of the Nile. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Einleitung / Introduction by Richard Strauss Book: Anthology of Poetry by Robert Service Luxury: The Blue Nude by Justin Deranyagala