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An interview with Indian author Arundhati Roy. She talks about her rich and sensuous novel, The God of Small Things, which is nominated for the Booker Prize. (Update: Roy won the 1997 Booker Prize for this novel).

Part Two of our series on War & Remembrance: This week, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with English novelist Pat Barker. Barker has written an extraordinary trilogy of novels about World War I - starting with Regeneration and concluding with her Booker Prize winner, The Ghost Road.

A reading by Roddy Doyle, from his book Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha.. Also - a discussion with writer and editor Dermot Bolger and historian Roy Foster about the myths and changes in Irish literature.

This week: a panel on the perils and pleasures of literary prizes. Eleanor talks with four literary prize winners, including England's Justin Cartwright, Ireland's Kevin Barry, Canada's Charlotte Gray, and American Meg Wolitzer.

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the Man Booker Prize-winner Hilary Mantel. She has followed her blockbuster hit, Wolf Hall with more on Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII. The new book is called Bring Up the Bodies.

This week on Writers and Company, Eleanor Wachtel interviews this year's Man Booker prize-winner, Julian Barnes, in a remarkably expansive and personal conversation. His new novel is called The Sense of an Ending.

From the Victoria Literary Arts Festival - "Eyes on the Prize": Five writers in conversation with Eleanor Wachtel, talking about the joys and pitfalls of winning literary prizes: Jane Urquhart, David Adams Richards, Lorna Crozier, Bonnie Burnard and David Malouf.

Eleanor Wachtel heads to Cape Town, South Africa, to talk with multi-award winning author J.M. Coetzee. Coetzee reads from his Booker Prize-winning novel Disgrace.

This week on Writers and Company- Salman Rushdie, one of the world's most celebrated Authors. Rushdie lived in hiding for ten years under the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa. In 1999 the death threat was lifted, and Rushdie could live a normal life and so could his infamous novel, The Satanic Verses. He'll discuss the book, as well as his latest novel The Enchantress of Florence.

Man Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga sits down with Writers & Company host Eleanor Wachtel for an enlightening literary discussion. They explore his winning novel The White Tiger, a relentlessly bleak, though surprisingly comic, look at modern India.

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with English author Bernardine Evaristo. The co-winner of the 2019 Man Booker Prize talks about her ambitious novel, Girl, Woman, Other, and about growing up in a large, mixed-race family in London in the 1960s and '70s.

In 2013, Canadian-born, New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton made history when she became the youngest person ever to win the Booker Prize. Catton was just 28 and her novel, The Luminaries (2013), went on to become an international bestseller. Catton later adapted her novel for a BBC-TV mini-series and wrote the screenplay for the 2020 film production of Jane Austen's Emma. Now, her much anticipated new novel, Birnam Wood (2023), a page-turning eco-thriller set in New Zealand's South Island,…

One of the world's most celebrated writers, Michael Ondaatje is the author of such acclaimed works as Running in the Family (1982), Anil's Ghost (2000) and In the Skin of a Lion (1987). His novel The English Patient (1992) won the 2018 Golden Man Booker Prize, naming it as 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…

To celebrate Writers & Company's 30th anniversary, Eleanor revisits some of the best interviews from season one: Alice Munro, A.S. Byatt, J.M. Coetzee, Wole Soyinka and Eduardo Galeano.

For Writers & Company's final, FINAL episode - A special event at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montréal celebrating the show's 33 years. The award-winning Canadian novelist Madeleine Thien turns the tables and interviews Eleanor. Plus, an introduction to CBC Radio's newest literary show, Bookends with Mattea Roach.