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PANEL: Memory and Place - A round-table discussion featuring Edwidge Danticat (Breath, Eyes, Memory, 1994, Soho Press), Martin Doerry (My Wounded Heart: The Life of Lilli Jahn, 1900-1944, 2004, Bloomsbury), Alberto Manguel (With Borges: A Memoir, 2004, Thomas Allen & Sons), Alicia Borinsky (All Night Movie, 2002, Hydra Books), and Pico Iyer (Sun After Dark: Flights Into the Foreign, 2004, Knopf). Recorded at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montreal. . READING I: Edwidge Dandicat…

Part 3 of the series "At the Centre of Europe: A Changing Germany" - From Cologne, the novelist, essayist and Islam scholar, Navid Kermani - one of Germany's most important writers and thinkers. Kermani talks to Eleanor about current political and cultural issues in Germany, and his passion for the music of Neil Young.

Eleanor speaks with Germany's Christopher Kloeble and Italy's Francesca Melandri onstage at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto. The novelists discuss the effects of history and current political climates on their work... and lives.

This week on Writers & Company: Host Eleanor Wachtel in conversation with German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck. They discuss her life, work and her book The End of Days.

Kitsalano, BC (father's birthplace). Germany (mother's birthplace)

The German American graphic artist talks to Eleanor Wachtel about her visual memoir, Belonging, an unflinching investigation into her family's involvement in the Second World War.

From Munich, to launch Writers & Company's special four-part series on Germany, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta about the historical, political and personal stories that have inspired her work.

From Berlin, more in the series 'At the Centre of Europe: A Changing Germany' with award-winning comic book artist Reinhard Kleist. Known for his graphic biographies, Kleist talks to Eleanor about portraying complex subjects through visual storytelling.

To wrap up the special series "At the Centre of Europe: A Changing Germany," Eleanor talks with novelist Alina Bronsky, from the former Soviet Union; and Turkish-German poet and essayist, Zafer Şenocak.

This week on Writers & Company - From Berlin, Ingo Schulze. Twenty years after the end of the wall, a re-imagining of life in the former East Germany by one of the country's best writers. New Lives by Ingo Schulze is available in paperback from Knopf Doubleday.

Julia Franck was 18 when the Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989. Born in the East, and raised mostly in the West, her life and writing embody the divide between the two cultures.

Voices from a New Europe: Writers in Western Europe at the End of 1992, Series Part 10 - "Europe, Europe." A special episode with German poet and essayist Hans Magnus Enzenberger. He discusses growing up in Germany during the rise (and fall) of Nazism, the reunification of east and west, and Germany in the new Europe.

Eleanor Wachtel interviews German-American writer Ursula Hegi. The author of Stones From the River confronts her heritage directly in her latest non-fiction book, Tearing the Silence.