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characteristic in-depth discussions focusing on books, ideas and
writing may now be found in the daily program The
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Koval
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Andrey Kurkov
Sunday 22 January 2006
Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov's first attempts at literature were poems on the death of his pet hamster and the death of Lenin.
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Carlos Fuentes
Sunday 15 January 2006
This week, Mexico’s greatest living author, Carlos Fuentes, in conversation with Ramona Koval. When they met in Montreal, Carlos Fuentes spoke to Ramona about his most recent book, This I Believe, a personal and idiosyncratic collection of meditative essays on the passions and ideals of his life.
First broadcast 24/4/05
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Kate Grenville
Sunday 8 January 2006
Kate Grenville talks to Ramona Koval about her latest, and much anticipated, novel The Secret River. This is a tale that seeks to gain a new vantage point from which to view Australia's European settlement. It's a story of ordinary people, inter-cultural incoherence and dreadful inevitabilities.
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George Elliot Clarke
Sunday 1 January 2006
This week, one of Canada’s most celebrated poets and authors, the Afro-Canadian (or Africadian) writer George Elliot Clarke, in conversation with Ramona Koval at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montreal. George and Rue is George Elliot Clarke’s first novel... a tale based on the life of his cousins George and Rufus Hamilton, who, in 1949 murdered a white taxi driver and in less than a year were hanged, back to back.
First broadcast 1/5/05
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