Date: 2013-04-07
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Varoufakis, Yanis, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The endless winter of discontent continues in Greece, as the country struggles through its sixth straight year of severe recession. It's a time of political and social disintegration that has not been experienced in Greece since the German occupation of World War II, followed by the Civil War, and later, the brutal period of military rule. Three years of harsh austerity measures have led to the highest rate of unemployment in the EU, with an unstable government and the disturbing rise of the…
Date: 2013-04-21
Name(s): Papandreou, Nikos, 1956-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The endless winter of discontent continues in Greece, as the country struggles through its sixth straight year of severe recession. Three years of harsh austerity measures have led to the highest rate of unemployment in the EU, with an unstable government and the disturbing rise of the extreme-right party Golden Dawn. Eleanor Wachtel has travelled to Athens to speak with a variety of the country's top writers and thinkers about their work and lives, and the atmosphere in the stricken nation…
Date: 2013-04-28
Name(s): Costa-Gavras, 1933-, Mastorakē, Tzenē, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The endless winter of discontent continues in Greece, as the country struggles through its sixth straight year of severe recession. Three years of harsh austerity measures have led to the highest rate of unemployment in the EU, with an unstable government and the disturbing rise of the extreme-right party Golden Dawn. Eleanor Wachtel has travelled to Athens to speak with a variety of the country's top writers and thinkers about their work and lives, and the atmosphere in the stricken nation…
Date: 2013-05-05
Name(s): Kaplani, Gkazment, 1967-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The endless winter of discontent continues in Greece, as the country struggles through its sixth straight year of severe recession. Three years of harsh austerity measures have led to the highest rate of unemployment in the EU, with an unstable government and the disturbing rise of the extreme-right party Golden Dawn. Eleanor Wachtel has travelled to Athens to speak with a variety of the country's top writers and thinkers about their work and lives, and the atmosphere in the stricken nation.…
Date: 2013-04-14
Name(s): Markaris, Petros, 1937-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The endless winter of discontent continues in Greece, as the country struggles through its sixth straight year of severe recession. It's a time of political and social disintegration not been experienced in Greece since the German occupation of World War II, followed by the Civil War, and later, the brutal period of military rule. Three years of harsh austerity measures have led to the highest rate of unemployment in the EU, with an unstable government and the disturbing rise of the extreme-…
Date: 1990-10-21
Name(s): Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-, Glendinning, Victoria, Myers, Jeffrey, Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: 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.
Date: 2013-02-10
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Thayil, Jeet, 1959-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The first in our 3-part series, Making Waves: Voices from the Jaipur Festival. To start, performance poet, journalist, and former drug addict, Jeet Thayil. Set in the opium dens of Bombay, his debut novel, Narcopolis, was short-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize and has just won the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
Date: 2013-02-17
Name(s): Fahmīdah Riyāẓ, 1946-2018, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The second in our 3-part series, Making Waves: Voices from the Jaipur Festival, a conversation with one of Pakistan's leading Urdu poets, Fahmīdah Riyāẓ. From early in her career, her bold, poetic expression has captured attention for its feminist voice and powerful use of language.
Date: 2013-02-24
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Tejpal, Tarun J., Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: 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.
Date: 2003-05-11
Name(s): Grace, Patricia, 1937-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Writers & Company kicks off a series of interviews under the title Maori Renaissance: New Zealand Re-imagined. The series begins with Patricia Grace. When Grace published her first book in 1975, it was the first short story collection by a Maori woman. Her work is distinguished by its subtlety and sensitivity, its range of characters and its inventive use of language. Her most recent novel, Dogside Story, won the 2001 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize.
Date: 2003-05-18
Name(s): Knox, Elizabeth, Manhire, Bill, 1946-, O'Brien, Gregory, 1961-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company...a panel of outstanding Maori authors, recorded in Wellington, New Zealand. Host Eleanor Wachtel welcomes poet Bill Manhire, novelist Elizabeth Knox, and poet, artist and essayist Gregory O'Brien. Three engaging and dynamic writers on the uniqueness of their literary terrain - the landscapes that have inspired them, the cultural mythology that informs their work, the pleasures of New Zealand idiom, and more.
Date: 2003-05-25
Name(s): Hulme, Keri, Ihimaera, Witi, 1944-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The series Māori Renaissance: New Zealand Re-imagined continues. This week, Witi Ihimaera and Keri Hulme. Witi Ihimaera was one of the first indigenous writers to describe Māori experience in English. Both in his own work and in his wider role as a kind of cultural ambassador for his people, he has addressed the realities of Māori life in New Zealand. His magical novel, The Whale Rider, was made into an award-winning movie. Novelist and poet Keri Hulme gained widespread recognition with her…
Date: 2003-06-01
Name(s): Duff, Alan, 1950-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor, Wendt, Albert, 1939-
Description: More in the series Māori Renaissance: New Zealand Re-imagined. This week, Alan Duff and Albert Wendt. New Zealand's most controversial writer, Alan Duff, was raised in the state housing area of Rotorua. A teenage runaway, he had a checkered career - including several prison terms - before finding a creative outlet in his explosive first novel, Once Were Warriors. The novel and subsequent movie had an enormous impact. Duff continues to draw on his own unhappy childhood to expose the darker…
Date: 2004-04-18
Name(s): Borinsky, Alicia, Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-, Doerry, Martin, Iyer, Pico, Manguel, Alberto, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: PANEL: Memory and Place - A round-table discussion featuring Edwidge Danticat (Breath, Eyes, Memory, 1994, Soho Press), Martin Doerry (My Wounded Heart: The Life of Lilli Jahn, 1900-1944, 2004, Bloomsbury), Alberto Manguel (With Borges: A Memoir, 2004, Thomas Allen & Sons), Alicia Borinsky (All Night Movie, 2002, Hydra Books), and Pico Iyer (Sun After Dark: Flights Into the Foreign, 2004, Knopf). Recorded at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montreal. . READING I: Edwidge Dandicat…
Date: 2008-04-13
Name(s): Poniatowska, Elena, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Writers and Company begins a special four-part series this Sunday. "Mexico Unmasked" is a series of conversations between host Eleanor Wachtel and some of modern Mexico's most respected writers and filmmakers. It's a country that most Canadians regard as little more than a vacation spot and a distant NAFTA partner. And it's a country where truth is tangled with lies and reality is often stranger than fiction, in where writers feel a sense of moral obligation to write. The series begins with…
