Writers and Company from CBC Radio

From the archives, Eleanor speaks with Cees Nooteboom—Dutch novelist, poet and travel writer—in 1997. He gets compared to Calvino and Borges, but Nooteboom is a surprising and unique talent all his own.

​​​Eleanor speaks with ​English novelist Pat Barker​.​ ​The author of the ​'Regeneration Trilogy​'​ has completed a new series about a group of London artists ​struggling through two world wars. Her latest novel, Noonday, is set during the London Blitz.

​Eleanor speaks with Jonathan Bate about his new biography of Ted Hughes, one of England’s most highly regarded and controversial poets, yet known primarily to some as the husband of Sylvia Plath.

More than fifty years after his breakthrough novel, “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold,” John le Carré is as much in the news as ever—with a new biography and more movie adaptations. Eleanor speaks with le Carré about his 23rd novel, "A Delicate Truth."

Eleanor speaks with American novelist, Rick Moody—author of “The Ice Storm” and “Purple America”—about his inventive new novel, “Hotels of North America.”

Eleanor speaks with four writers from Catalonia ― Spain’s economic engine and possible breakaway republic ― about language, literature and politics.

In celebration of Writers & Company's 25th anniversary season, Eleanor speaks with special guests Zadie Smith​, Aleksandar Hemon​ and ​Caryl Phillips​ ​on-stage at Toronto's International Festival of Authors.

Eleanor speaks with this year’s winner of the Man Booker Prize, Marlon James, the first Jamaican writer to win. His winning novel is called “A Brief History of Seven Killings.”

This week, Turkish Nobel Prize-winning writer Orhan Pamuk. His new novel, his first since ‘The Museum of Innocence,’ is called 'A Strangeness in My Mind.'

This month we celebrate our 25th anniversary. From the start, the program set its sights on the world's finest writers, some new, some established. From our first season; Alice Munro, A.S. Byatt, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Eduardo Galeano.

In this onstage conversation, Eleanor talks with Salman Rushdie about his 12th novel, inspired by "1001 Nights". Like Scheherezade, Rushdie, the irrepressible storyteller, has also lived on the brink of destruction.

From Berlin, novelist Jenny Erpenbeck. Her latest book, “The End of Days” is the winner of this year’s Independent newspaper’s Foreign Fiction Prize and the Netherland’s European Literature Award.

This week, from Mexico and New York, and many places in between, the virtuoso young writer, Valeria Luiselli. The National Book Foundation named her one of its “5 Under 35” award. An exciting new voice and original sensibility.

This week, from Finland and Estonia, Sofi Oksanen. Her novels about the double occupation of Estonia – Nazi and Soviet — are international bestsellers.

Our 25th season begins with American writer Jonathan Franzen. Dubbed “The Great American Novelist”, he created a stir some years ago with his novel 'The Corrections.' His latest blockbuster is called “Purity”.