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From New Delhi, India - award-winning novelist Arundhati Roy. Twenty years after her Booker Prize-winning, debut novel, The God of Small Things, she's back with a new book - The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - which explores gender identity, nationalism, Kashmiri independence, and many forms of both violence and love.

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.

Indian filmmaker Mira Nair spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about her screen adaptation of Vikram Seth's bestselling novel, A Suitable Boy. The series was the closing night presentation at TIFF 2020.

In front of a live audience in Montréal, at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, Eleanor speaks with the festival's Grand Prix winner, Anita Desai, about her life and the award-winning books she's written over more than fifty years.

"Dreaming Australia: Changing Visions of a Country" part four. Michelle de Kretser's writing raises interesting questions about Australian identity and culture. This week on Writers & Company, the talented novelist explains how themes of dislocation and discovery fit into her works. Also on the program, an interview with Kate Grenville, an author who finds inspiration in Australian history.

The conclusion of our 3-part series Making Waves: Voices from the Jaipur Festival, with Tarun Tejpal - one of India's most respected journalists and novelists. His groundbreaking investigative newsmagazine, Tehelka, has earned a global reputation for its aggressive public interest journalism. His chilling latest novel is called The Valley of Masks.

British biographer Claire Tomalin discusses the affair between Victorian actress Nelly Ternan and novelist Charles Dickens in her book, The Invisible Woman.; Indian-Canadian fiction writer Rohinton Mistry discusses his work. This episode includes an excerpt from Rohinton Mistry's new novel Such a Long Journey, read by Sugith Varughese.

Vikram Seth discusses his novel A Suitable Boy. Considered the biggest book of the year, it's a story about families, love, marriages, and manners - set against the political events of a newly-independent India.

Reinventing India: Writing Since Independence - a series that explores the sub-continent through its novelists, poets, and critics. Series episode 3: An interview with Bengali novelist and poet Sunil Gangopadhyay - a Partition refugee who's become one of India's most popular and influential writers.

Reinventing India: Writing Since Independence - a series that explores the sub-continent through its novelists, poets, and critics. Series episode 4: From Bangalore in the south, Shashi Deshpande - a surprising feminist voice with a refreshing vision.

Reinventing India: Writing Since Independence - a series that explores the sub-continent through its novelists, poets, and critics. Series pt. 5: with Commonwealth Prize winner Gita Hariharan and Nirmal Verma - a master of Hindi short fiction and a thoughtful analyst of Indian philosophy.