Date: 2007-05-13
Name(s): Erduran, Refik, 1928-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Uzuner, Buket, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: "View from the Bridge: Turkish Writing Today," part 2. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Refik Erduran and Buket Uzuner. Erduran, a playwright, journalist, novelist, publisher, television producer and more, is a well-known personality in Turkish culture. He shares vivid memories of the early days of Ataturk's republic and at the same time offers astute observations on contemporary life in Turkey. Uzuner is part of a younger generation of Turkish writers. She worked for many years as a biologist…
Date: 2007-05-20
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Shafak, Elif, 1971-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The special series "View from the Bridge: Turkish Writing Today" continues this week on Writers & Company. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with dynamic young novelist Elif Shafak. Her latest controversial hit, The Bastard of Istanbul, chronicles the intertwined lives of two families - one Turkish, the other Armenian.
Date: 2007-05-27
Name(s): Halman, Talât Sait, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor, Yula, Özen, 1965-
Description: The special series "The View from the Bridge: Turkish Writing Today" wraps up this week on Writers & Company, with Eleanor Wachtel's interviews with two writers. Talât Sait Halman is a translator, poet, literary historian and critic, editor and teacher. After many years in the United States, at Columbia, Princeton and NYU, he returned to Turkey in 1998 to found the Department of Turkish Literature at Bilkent University in Ankara. He's translated 5000 poems, including those of the Sufi…
Date: 2003-04-20
Name(s): Ferguson, Niall, MacMillan, Margaret, 1943-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company - "War and its Aftermath." Eleanor Wachtel talks to Scottish historian Niall Ferguson about his book The Pity of War, and to Canadian Margaret MacMillan about Paris 1919.
Date: 1993-04-25
Name(s): Gallagher, Tess, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The first episode in a series on "West Coast Writers" - From Port Angeles, Washington, American poet Tess Gallagher. Her recent book of poems commemorates her life with the writer Raymond Carver. This episode includes a recording of an excerpt from one of Carver's stories, read by Peter Reigert.
Date: 1993-05-16
Name(s): Godfrey, Lisa, Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997, Millier, Brett C., 1958-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part 4 of the series "West Coast Writers" - The final episode of the series, with poet Denise Levertov. Also, the first full biography on the American poet Elizabeth Bishop, written by Brett Millier. It's part of a revival of the interest in Bishop's life and work.
Date: 1999-04-25
Name(s): Dunmore, Helen, 1952-2017, Hamilton, Jane, 1957 July 13-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: "Women and Fiction": Part 1: Popular American novelist Jane Hamilton, the author of The Book of Ruth and Map of the World, talks about her newest book - The Short History of a Prince. Part II: From England - Orange Prize winner Helen Dunmore discusses Your Blue-Eyed Boy.
Date: 2002-04-14
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor, Ṣāliḥ, al-Ṭayyib
Description: Today, the launch of a new series called "Writing in the World of Islam." In this episode, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with renowned Sudanese author Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ.
Date: 2002-04-21
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Shaykh, Ḥanān, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: "Writing in the World of Islam," Pt. 2, with Ḥanān Shaykh. Ḥanān Shaykh (b. 1945 in Lebanon) is one of the most highly regarded contemporary Arab novelists. Educated in Cairo, she worked as a journalist in Beirut until forced to leave during the civil war. Her first novel was banned in several Middle Eastern countries for its expression of female sexuality. Her latest novel, Only in London, captures the collision of Arab and Western cultures with insight and humour.
Date: 2002-04-28
Name(s): Ibrāhīm, Ṣunʻ Allāh, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: "Writing in the World of Islam," Pt. 3, with Ṣunʻ Allāh Ibrāhīm. Ṣunʻ Allāh Ibrāhīm (b. 1937 in Cairo) is one of Egypt's most innovative writers and a major literary figure in the Arab world. As a leftist activist, he was imprisoned by Nasser for more than five years. Ibrāhīm's groundbreaking first book, The Smell of It, was banned or censored for nearly two decades in Egypt and other Muslim countries. Original and provocative, his work continues to express his lively, witty, satirical…
Date: 2002-05-05
Name(s): Pamuk, Orhan, 1952-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: "Writing in the World of Islam," Pt. 4, with Orhan Pamuk. Orhan Pamuk (b. 1952 in Istanbul) is Turkey's bestselling novelist, with a dazzling reputation abroad. He deftly combines religious and historical themes with Western postmodernism. Pamuk has rejected the title of state artist in Turkey, where he is something of a publishing phenomenon. His latest book, My Name is Red, recently had a rave review in The New Yorker by John Updike.
Date: 2002-05-12
Name(s): Alianak, Hrant, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Soueif, Ahdaf, Wachtel, Eleanor, Yūsuf, Saʻdī
Description: "Writing in the World of Islam," Pt. 5, with Ahdaf Soueif and Saʻdī Yūsuf. Ahdaf Soueif (b. 1950 in Cairo) has been described as Egypt's George Eliot. A chronicler of the personal and the political, she divides her time between Egypt and London and writes in both Arabic and English. According to Edward Said, Soueif's fiction put gender politics on the Arab literary map. Her 1999 novel, The Map of Love, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Saʻdī Yūsuf (b. 1934 in Iraq) is one of the most…
Date: 2020-11-22
Name(s): Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023, Coetzee, J. M., 1940-, Galeano, Eduardo, 1940-2015, Munro, Alice, 1931-2024, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Soyinka, Wole, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: 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.
Date: 2003-06-15
Name(s): Collins, Michael, 1964-, Keegan, Claire, McCann, Colum, 1965-, O'Faolain, Nuala, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: In honour of Bloomsday (June 16th), the day of James Joyce's Ulysses, Eleanor Wachtel talks to four Irish writers - Michael Collins, Claire Keegan, Colum McCann and Nuala O'Faolain - on ideas of home and away. Recorded at the Manulife Literary Arts Festival in Victoria, B.C.
Date: 2000-12-03
Name(s): McCourt, Frank, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: A conversation with the Irish-American memoirist Frank McCourt, author of 'Tis and the Pulitzer Prize winning work, Angela's Ashes. It's a surprisingly candid chat with a man who - at age 66 - catapulted himself onto the best seller lists. Includes two readings by McCourt, from Angela's Ashes and from 'Tis.
