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Ramona Koval guides you through the world of writing and publishing, fiction and non-fiction. (Author: ABC Radio National)
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Published: Sep 11, 08Christopher Kremmer on greed Christopher Kremmer, author of Bamboo Palace, The Carpet Wars and Inhaling the Mahatma, begins the 2008 Sydney PEN '3 Writers' series of talks with an address on the subject of greed.
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Published: Sep 10, 08Patrick French on VS Naipaul Patrick French has won awards for his biography of the explorer Francis Younghusband and for his writing on India. The World Is What It Is is his authorised biography of VS Naipaul, which reads like a novel in its arresting study of the man himself, like history as we move through Naipaul's life, and like a work of literary criticism in its examination of Naipaul's writing.
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Published: Sep 9, 08On fragments and dust: Nicolas Rothwell As a journalist Nicolas Rothwell has travelled to the Americas, Western and Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In 2005 he was The Australian newspaper's correspondent in Iraq. He passed through the landscapes of a country at war and visited the ruins of past civilisations, such as the capital of Queen Zenobia. When he came back home to Darwin, he travelled again to the desert, to the Kimberley and Pilbara, which is a landscape he's been travelling through
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Published: Sep 8, 08Ukranian satirist Andrey Kurkov Andrey Kurkov is a Ukrainian writer of Russian extraction. His writing combines acute political observation, deep human understanding and a talent for black comedy. His novel The President's Last Love is about life in Ukraine before and after the Soviet union. It's the story of a young catering manager who reaches the top of the political tree almost by accident.Writers as readers: David Malouf At the 2008 Melbourne Writers' Festival a number of writers talked abo
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Published: Sep 7, 08Anne Fine at the Edinburgh International Book Festival English writer Anne Fine was the Children's Laureate a few years ago, but she also writes for adults. She calls her novels for adults sour comedies. At the Edinburgh International Book Festival she spoke to Ramona Koval about the latest of these, Fly In The Ointment.
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Published: Sep 4, 08Colm Toibin and Patrick McGrath An entertaining pairing of two of the finest writers of fiction at this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival -- Patrick McGrath and Colm Toibin. They talk to Ramona about mothers, martyrs and what to do if you're about to be burned at the stake.
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Published: Sep 3, 08Jackie Kay: Scottish poet, novelist and short-story writer Jackie Kay's a captivating writer and a warm and funny presence. Born in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father she was adopted by a white couple at birth and brought up in Glasgow. The experience of being adopted by, and growing up with, a white family inspired her first collection of poetry The Adoption Papers. Her first novel, Trumpet, was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and she has also written a much-admired short story
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Published: Sep 2, 08Hanif Kureishi on writing, psychoanalysis and relationships Hanif Kureishi is a very successful and multi-award winning writer of novels, short stories, screenplays, plays, non-fiction and essays. He spoke to Ramona Koval at the Edinburgh International Book Festival about his new novel Something To Tell You. In the book we meet the middle-aged Dr. Jamal Kahn, a Freudian psychoanalyst who tells us about his journey through 1970's London suburbia, his first love, his family, his history of fears a
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Published: Sep 1, 08Sophie Cunningham, editor of Meanjin Most Australians live in the suburbs, yet the suburbs have not fared well in Australian literature. Frequently portrayed as desolate, the dead zone between the cosmopolitan city and the romance of the bush, the suburbs are usually a place from which to escape to a more interesting life. But the suburbs have found a champion in the literary journal Meanjin, with an essay arguing that the urban fringes could be the well-spring of renewal for a greener, more car
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Published: Aug 31, 08Kate Mosse in conversation at the Melbourne Writers' Festival Kate Mosse is the author of the blockbuster historical fantasies Labyrinth and Sepulchre, time slip novels in which contemporary characters find their lives entangled with figures from the past. Kate Mosse is also one of the founders of the Orange Prize for Fiction, a thirty thousand pound prize for a novel by a woman.
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Published: Aug 28, 08Germaine Greer at the Melbourne Writers' Festival In her opening address at the 2008 Melbourne Writers' Festival Germaine Greer spoke about rage, which is also the subject of her recently published essay - On Rage.Please note that this broadcast is not available as a podcast.
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Published: Aug 27, 08Live from the Melbourne Writers' Festival - Studies of Evil In a program broadcast live from the Melbourne Writers' Festival, Peter Mares discusses Hitler, Stalin, evil and the writing of history with Professors Michael Burleigh and Orlando Figes. Michael Burleigh has written extensively about Germany in the 1930s and 40s. His book The Third Reich: A New History won the 2001 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. His most recent work is the controversial and very topical Blood and Rage: A Cultura
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Published: Aug 26, 08Philip Gourevitch, editor of The Paris Review Italian novelist and scholar Umberto Eco has 30 000 books in his Milan appartment and another 20 000 volumes in his country manor. Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins New Zealand writer, Emily Perkins' book Novel About My Wife is set in London, where the author lived for 10 years. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (review) The judges for the world's richest short story prize, the Frank O'Connor Award, thought Jhumpa Lahiri's latest collection Unac
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Published: Aug 25, 08Augusten Burroughs: A Wolf at the Table Augusten Burroughs made the terrible events of his adolesence funny in Running with Scissors. Now Burroughs has written another memoir, one that goes further back into his childhood to investigate his relationship with his father. It's a darker work called A Wolf at the Table.
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Published: Aug 24, 08Barry Maitland in conversation at the Melbourne Writers' Festival Barry Maitland is known for his forensic police procedurals featuring the investigative pair of Detective Chief Inspector David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard's Serious Crime Unit, but his latest work breaks the mould. The novel, called Bright Air, is set in Australia and, unlike his other work, it's written in the first person, making it a more personal and interior narrative that explores psychological
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