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Ireland’s first Laureate for Fiction Anne Enright on love, sex, secrets and Irish history
Yuval Noah Harari on his book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
A conversation with author Kazuo Ishiguro in front of an audience at Hay Festival, Wales
A conversation with Germaine Greer at the Hay Festival in Wales in front of an audience
Writer Nicci Gerrard talks to George Alagiah about her latest book on dementia
Novelist and poet Kapka Kassabova talks about growing up behind the Iron Curtain
Fatima Bhutto talks to George Alagiah about how politics and tragedy shaped her writing
Kirsty Wark talks to author and academic T. Geronimo Johnson
Norwegian author Åsne Seierstad is renowned for her s of daily life in war zones
Indian writer and publisher Anuradha Roy on her novel An Atlas of Impossible Longing
Writer Alexander McCall Smith on creating The Number 1. Ladies’ Detective Agency
Australian author Tim Winton on what drives him and his literary career
Pulitzer prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout on what drives her and her literary career
Author Sebastian Barry on his writing career and latest novel Days Without End
Renowned authors from around the world on what drives their work and their literary life
The author talks about her novels We Need to Talk about Kevin, and The Mandibles
Author Peter Carey on his novels and issues with privacy
Author Tahmima Anam on her first novel , A Golden Age, about Bangladesh's Liberation war
Jamaican-born author Marlon James on his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings
The author on the imperial concubine, Cixi, who ruled China for half a century
Karl Ove Knausgaard and what motivated him to expose intimate details of his life
"Our story... That wasn't anywhere" author Toni Morrison on African American literature
The novelist talks about the themes of loyalty and belonging
On writing about minorities, contradictions in society and making his readers laugh
Playwright and novelist Michael Frayn on why he wants to make his readers laugh
Historical novelist Tracy Chevalier on why she wants to bring the past to life
Why author Aminatta Forna is drawn to the topics of betrayal, love and loss
Award-winning Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid on his ion for fiction
Razia Iqbal talks to US author Paul Auster about his work, and his book Winter Journal.
The prolific writer and academic Joyce Carol Oates on how she finds work rewarding
