Best-selling American author Jane Smiley discusses A Thousand Acres, her ambitious re-imagining of Shakespeare's King Lear transposed onto an Iowan farmstead, which won the Pulitzer Prize.
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The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
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Folge vom 01.04.2008Jane Smiley
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Folge vom 28.02.2008Patricia CornwellAmerican crime writer Patricia Cornwell talks about Post Mortem, the first novel in her celebrated Kay Scarpetta series.
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Folge vom 31.01.2008Edna O'BrienIrish writer Edna O'Brien discusses The Country Girls, her novel about adolescence set in 1950's Ireland.
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Folge vom 25.12.2007Umberto EcoItalian author Umberto Eco discusses his novel The Name of the Rose, set in a 14th Century Franciscan monastery and answers questions from an invited audience.(Photo: Umberto Eco)