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"Literary Biography" panel with Jeffrey Myers, Victoria Glendinning, and Peter Ackroyd. Reading and interview with Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
PANEL: Literary biographers Peter Ackroyd (Dickens, 1990, McClelland & Stewart), Victoria Glendinning (Rebecca West, A Life, 1987, Collier MacMillan), and Jeffrey Meyers (D.H. Lawrence: A Biography, 1990, Random House) in discussion. READING: Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo reads from Devil on a Cross (Eng. Translation 1982) at Harbourfront's Toronto International Festival of Authors. INTERVIEW: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo discusses his work.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo on Wizard of the Crow
This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Kenya's greatest novelist, Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, about his ambitious, satirical, epic work, Wizard of the Crow.
African Authors series, episode 3: with Jack Mapanje and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
African Authors series, episode 3: Eleanor talks with Malawian poet Jack Mapanje, who was seized and imprisoned without trial. Now he lives in exile and the poems he wrote in his head during his imprisonment fill his new collection. Also, a reading by Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
African Authors series, episode 4: with Lauretta Ngcobo, Micere Mugo, and Buchi Emecheta
More from Africa: Lauretta Ngcobo from South Africa and Micere Mugo from Kenya talk about living in exile. Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta discusses her last novel - her 19th book - Kehinde.