Date: 2007-06-03
Name(s): Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Michael Ondaatje about Divisadero, his first novel in seven years. It's a story of passion, loss and the imprint of the past.
Date: 2018-09-23
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Winterbottom, Michael
Description: From the Toronto International Film Festival, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the English director about the literary influences in his work, his attraction to road movies, and the making of his latest film, The Wedding Guest.
Date: 2019-06-09
Name(s): De Kretser, Michelle, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Australian author Michelle de Kretser talks to Eleanor Wachtel about hope and betrayal in her fiction, and about growing up in Sri Lanka in the 1960s.
Date: 2008-10-05
Name(s): Hatoum, Milton, 1952-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Catch Brazilian writer Milton Hatoum this week on Writers and Company. He's the prize-winning author of The Brothers and A Tale of a Certain Orient. This week host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Hatoum about his new novel Ashes of the Amazon.
Date: 2020-09-27
Name(s): Nair, Mira, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: 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.
Date: 2006-09-24
Name(s): Ali, Monica, 1967-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company - Eleanor speaks with Monica Ali on her extraordinary success. Her best-selling novel Brick Lane is a tale of the Bangladeshi community in England. Ali has a new book called Alentejo Blue, which is set in a village in Portugal.
Date: 2006-04-16
Name(s): Ackerman, Marianne, Des Rosiers, Joël, Nasrallah, Dimitri, 1978-, Nepveu, Pierre, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Writers & Company presents a round table from the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montréal - named the City of Words this year by UNESCO. Eleanor Wachtel talks with four writers - Marianne Ackerman, Joël Des Rosiers, Dimitri Nasrallah and Pierre Nepveu - about the changing face of Montréal's literary scene.
Date: 2014-03-23
Name(s): Hamid, Mohsin, 1971-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Coming up on Writers and Company: from Pakistan, Mohsin Hamid. The writer of the hit novel and film, The Reluctant Fundamentalist has a new book called How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.
Date: 2007-11-04
Name(s): Hamid, Mohsin, 1971-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with London based Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid about his recent novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Bringing a whole new perspective to life before and after 9/11, this novel depicts a one-sided conversation that takes place between a Pakistani and an American who meet in a café in Lahore. It's a compact and compelling story.
Date: 2018-01-14
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Seiffert, Rachel, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Dark Room and A Boy in Winter talks to Eleanor Wachtel about how her German family's history informs her powerful fiction.
Date: 2021-11-07
Name(s): Chancy, Myriam J. A., 1970-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Haitian-Canadian-American novelist Myriam Chancy talks to Eleanor Wachtel about her powerful new book, What Storm, What Thunder. Multilayered and lyrical, it features a variety of inter-connected characters, each with a moving story. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level equipment-related distortion.
Date: 2009-09-20
Name(s): Aslam, Nadeem, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week from Pakistan and England, nadeem Aslam. The author of Maps for Lost Lovers tackles Afghanistan in his latest novel, The Wasted Vigil (2008, Doubleday Canada).
Date: 2022-01-30
Name(s): Mohamed, Nadifa, 1981-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, from London, Somali-British writer Nadifa Mohamed. Somali-British writer Nadifa Mohamed's latest novel, The Fortune Men, is based on the true story of Mahmood Mattan, a Somali seaman who was executed in 1952 in Cardiff, Wales, for a murder he didn't commit. The book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Costa Best Novel Award. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level equipment-related distortion.
Date: 2019-01-13
Name(s): Labaki, Nadine, 1974-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki made history last year when she became the first female Arab director to win a major prize in competition at Cannes. Labaki talks to Eleanor Wachtel about her powerful new film, working with a cast of young nonprofessional actors, and the importance of telling Lebanese stories from a woman's perspective.
Date: 2022-06-05
Name(s): Haynes, Natalie, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From the face that launched a thousand ships, to the gaze that turned men to stone – the women of Greek myths are the subject of Natalie Haynes's latest book, Pandora's Jar: Women in Greek Myths. If you've ever wondered whether Helen really started the Trojan War, or how Medusa got a head full of snakes, or what Pandora's box was all about, Haynes is the person to ask. The British classicist, novelist and stand-up comedian goes back to the ancient original sources to rediscover these and other…
