Michael Ondaatje on The Cat's Table

Date
2011-11-06
Interviewer: Wachtel, Eleanor
Host: Wachtel, Eleanor
Interviewee: Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-
Producer: Stinson, Mary (Producer)
Producer: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Description

Host Eleanor Wachtel has spoken with Michael Ondaatje many times on Writers & Company over the years, most recently when Ondaatje turned the tables and interviewed HER at an event for the Writers & Company 20th Anniversary celebrations. She now speaks to him, onstage at the International Festival of Authors, about his latest book, The Cat's Table.

Physical description
1 online resource (1 audio file (51 min., 57 sec.))
Location
Toronto International Festival of Authors
Toronto (Ont.)
Subject
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. English Networks
CBC Books
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Wachtel, Eleanor. Writers & company
Authorship
Authors, Canadian--Interviews
Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-
Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- Cat's table
Ocean travel--Fiction
Ondaatje, Michael, 1943---Childhood and youth
Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959
Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- Running in the family
Authors, Canadian--20th century--Biography
Sri Lanka--Biography
Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- In the skin of a lion
Genre
Discussion
Interviews
Literary readings
Sound recordings
Type of resource
Sound recording non-musical
Language
English
Part of
Writers & Company
Identifier
WritersAndCo-2011-11-06
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Source/owner of material

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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