Writers and Company from CBC Radio

This week, a brand new interview with John le Carré. We last spoke with him in 2010, and he was so articulate and charming that we were delighted to have a chance to speak with him again. This file contains audio not heard on the broadcast version.

Irish writer Colm Toibin was this year's grand prize winner at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal. His latest, “The Testament of Mary” takes place twenty years after Jesus’s death.

Kate Atkinson spoke with Eleanor onstage at Harbourfront in Toronto. Atkinson’s first Jackson Brodie novel was described by Stephen King as the best mystery of the decade. Her latest wonderful novel (not a Brodie mystery) is called “Life after Life”.

We wrap up our series “Greece: The Unfolding Drama”, with the Albanian-Greek writer, Gazmend Kapllani. Before the economic crisis (and possibly racism) cost him his job, he was the only immigrant journalist writing columns in the big Greek dailies.

Our Greek series continues with poet Jenny Mastoraki. She came of age during the military dictatorship, and found her voice at a time when words were considered dangerous. Also, Greek born filmmaker Costa Gavras.

Our series ‘Greece: ‘The Unfolding Drama’ continues with Nick Papandreou, son of the late Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou - and grandson and brother to two other Greek Prime Ministers.

Petros Markaris is a popular crime writer, but he's also a respected playwright, translator and screenwriter. Our conversation with him is the second in our 5-part series, “Greece: The Unfolding Drama”.

This week, the launch of a new series, 'Greece: The Unfolding Drama'; from classical mythology to the weakest link in the European Union. To start, Yanis Varoufakis, respected political economist, and author of "The Global Minotaur".

American novelist and short story writer Marisa Silver was inspired by an iconic 1936 image of a migrant mother. She re-imagines the lives of the photographer and her subject in her new novel, "Mary Coin".

Our 2003 conversation with one of Quebec's most influential writers, Michel Tremblay. In a career spanning over 40 years, he's written a cycle of plays, a sextet of novels, a trilogy of memoirs, translations, song lyrics, and much more..

American novelist and children's book author, Paula Fox, talks about her own extraordinary childhood in her 2001 memoir, "Borrowed Finery".

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This week, families and memoir - or is it fiction? An encore presentation of Eleanor Wachtel's 2001 conversation with the popular English novelist, Margaret Drabble, and her husband, the biographer, Michael Holroyd, about memoir, biography and putting the

A conversation with the American writer George Saunders. When Saunders won a MacArthur "genius grant" - half a million dollars, no strings - they talked about how he brings "a sense of humour, pathos and literary style all his own" to contemporary America

The conclusion of our series "Making Waves: Voices from the Jaipur Festival" with Tarun Tejpal, one of India's most respected journalists and novelists.