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Arundhati Roy on The God of Small Things
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).
An interview and readings by Indian author Amitav Ghosh
Eleanor Wachtel interviews Indian novelist and social anthropologist Amitav Ghosh. Ghosh reads from The Shadow Lines and In an Antique Land.
Kiran Desai on her novel The Inheritance of Loss
This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize, Kiran Desai, about her powerful and ambitious new novel, The Inheritance of Loss.
Aravind Adiga on his newest novel The White Tiger
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.
From Kolkata to Mumbai, London to Berlin – Amit Chaudhuri's fiction travels off the beaten path
Amit Chaudhuri is considered one of the best Indian writers working today. A true renaissance man, he's a poet, essayist and musician, as well as the author of exquisite fiction. As the late Hilary Mantel described him, Chaudhuri "has, like Proust, perfected the art of the moment." His latest book, Sojourn - set in Berlin - is an evocative meditation on place and memory. Amit Chaudhuri spoke to Eleanor Wachtel from his home in Kolkata, India.