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International Prize for Arabic Fiction | Podcast
Saud Alsanousi & Ellah Alfrey
On Tuesday 23 April, in Abu Dhabi, Saud Alsanousi was announced winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Lina Wolff | Podcast
Lina Wolff & Saskia Vogel
Lina Wolff on Dante, the artistic temperament and the tension she feels between a ‘Spanishness’ and ‘Swedishness’ when writing.
In Conversation: Tishani Doshi and Karthika Naïr
Tishani Doshi & Karthika Naïr
‘I have never felt it as a poet, and that is why I’m doubly grateful to dance, for having experienced the loneliness and the terror of the empty stage, but also, to have had that live connection.’
Karl Ove Knausgård | Interview
Karl Ove Knausgård & Sophia Efthimiatou
‘You are in the middle of your life and you think, how did I get here?’
Catherine Lacey | Interview
Catherine Lacey & Louise Scothern
‘It's uncomfortable, at times, to be alive, so I see no reason why a voice in fiction shouldn't be also.’
The Stone-Thrower from Eisenhuttenstadt
Max Thomas Mehr & Regine Sylvester
‘It has nothing to do with the question of the foreigners. No one in Eisenhuttenstadt wants the foreigners here.’
‘Useless Chaos is What Fiction is About’
Mavis Gallant & Jhumpa Lahiri
‘Useless chaos is what fiction is about.’
In Conversation: Pankaj Mishra and Aman Sethi
Pankaj Mishra & Aman Sethi
‘It is India’s turn to undergo social traumas that other countries have suffered in their pursuit of wealth and power.’
Julie Otsuka | Interview
Julie Otsuka & Patrick Ryan
‘Using the ‘we’ voice allowed me to tell a much larger story than I would have been able to tell otherwise.’
Tim Lott | Interview
Tim Lott & Helen Gordon
‘Somehow by putting things into words you’re taking a situation that feels very out of control and creating a kind of illusion of control over it.’
Salman Rushdie | Interview
Salman Rushdie & Blake Morrison
Blake Morrison interviews Salman Rushdie in 1990, one year after he was placed under fatwa.