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CAMBON PODCASTSMai Sennaar in “les Rencontres” — CHANEL Literary Rendezvous at Rue CambonListen to journalist Erica Wagner in conversation with Mai Sennaar, writer of “They Dream in Gold”, her first novel published by Picador and SJP Lit in 2024 which explores the notion of identity and the sense of belonging through two protagonists from the African diaspora in the United States. As the conversation unfolds, the author evokes how music changed her life and the emancipatory power of language. The writer, playwright and filmmaker also reflects on the transformative experience of being published, read and understood as her first novel has been shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. As...
2025-02-1936 min
BÜCHER.MENSCHEN - Autor:innen erLebenBuchhandlung Kerbiser: Buchtipps für's Christkind
Ich bin Martina Steidl, herzlich Willkommen zu einer neuen Folge Bücher.Menschen Autor:innen erLeben – und da geht’s diesmal zur Abwechslung nicht um einen Autor, oder eine Autorin – im Mittelpunkt stehen in dieser Spezialfolge die Buchhandlung Kerbiser in Mürzzuschlag und das Team rund um Nina Stastny – denn – Weihnachten naht und Büchergeschenke finden sich doch Jahr für Jahr unter dem Christbaum – wer da vielleicht noch unschlüssig oder selbst einfach auf der Suche nach neuem Lesestoff ist, der hört am besten rein, denn unsere drei Buchhändlerinnen haben sich einige Schätze überlegt und empfehlen Bücher, die...
2024-11-2434 min
Download Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Fiction, Drama[Spanish] - Ales junto a la hoguera by Jon FossePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768802 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Ales junto a la hoguera Author: Jon Fosse Narrator: David Vert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 18, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA 2023 Una obra maestra de Jon Fosse y una de sus novelas más queridas. Una conmovedora meditación sobre la familia, el matrimonio, la pérdida y el destino. «La obra de Fosse es un enigma que da vida y esperanza a quien la lee. Ilumina el alma humana como solo lo hacen los elegidos». Manuel Vilas Sola en su...
2024-04-1805 min
bücherreichbücherreich 193 – Interview mit Ina von Zero zu Buchcover-GestaltungDie Werbeagentur Zero aus München erstellt Buchcover. In dieser Sonderepisode plaudere ich mit Ina von Zero über Buchcover-Gestaltung heute, gestern und morgen. Wie ist der Ablauf bei der Erstellung eines Buchcovers? Welche Trends kann man bei Buchcovern beobachten? Ina lässt uns einen Blick hinter die Kulissen werfen und erzählt einige Anekdoten aus dem Berufsalltag.
Dabei erwähnen wir folgende Bücher und Autoren:
Neil Gaiman
Tim Butcher
„Machen Sie mal zügig die Mitteltüren frei“ von Susanne Schmidt
„Der Gesang der Flusskrebse“ von Delia Owens
„Das Labyrinth des Fauns“ von Cornelia Funke und Guillermo del Toro
„Quality Land“ von Marc...
2021-06-1500 min
BookBlast® PodcastBridging the Divide #14 | Lucy Popescu interviews Goran Vojnović, Olivia Hellewell"In The Fig Tree, deftly translated by Olivia Hellewell, Goran Vojnović portrays three generations of a family whose lives are marked by the disintegration of Yugoslavia and its brutal aftermath. It is a remarkable portrait of a country’s fragmentation and a family’s fracture." Lucy Popescu, The BookBlast Diary
Presented by Georgia de Chamberet | Produced by Rupert Such
2020-10-2054 min
BookBlast® PodcastBridging the Divide #13 | Lucy Popescu & Natasha Lehrer discuss Nathalie Leger’s The White DressIn THE WHITE DRESS, Nathalie Léger tells the story of Pippa Bacca, a thirty-three-year-old Italian feminist performance artist who decided to hitchhike from Milan to Jerusalem wearing a white wedding dress to symbolise “marriage between different peoples and nations.” Through her intense examination of Bacca’s final work and of the often polarised public reaction to the role of women in art, Léger also compellingly addresses her own conflicted relationship with her elderly mother.
Does Bacca’s work actually need to be translated in a narrative form. Like any visual artist, it’s there in the performa...
2020-09-2430 min
BookBlast® PodcastBridging the Divide #11 | Lucy Popescu interviews Tommy Wieringa and his translator Sam GarrettLucy Popescu interviews Tommy Wieringa and his translator from Dutch, Sam Garrett. Wieringa's novel The Death of Murat Idrissi was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2019. In 2018 he won the Bookspot Literatuurprijs for his novel De heilige Rita, The Blessed Rita, published this year by Scribe UK. It is a compelling portrait of the forgotten and Wieringa makes a strong case for empathy with those living on the margins of society.
“Did you grow up in a rural or urban community?”
“What draws you to write about men on the margins?”
“Tommy, regarding e...
2020-09-1734 min
BookBlast® PodcastBridging the Divide #7 | Lucy Popescu (Journalist) Lulu Norman (translator) on Aziz Binebine"Tazmamart was an underground military prison in southeast Morocco where those considered enemies of the king were detained from 1972 to 1991. It was built after two failed coup d’états against Hassan II of Morocco. Many of those detained were unwitting participants in the alleged coup . . ." Lucy Popescu, The BookBlast Diary
How easy is to forgive a regime and one’s former torturers?
What were Aziz’s primary motives behind writing this book – to lay ghosts to rest? To effect change? The world he depicts is barely imaginable for those of us living in a democracy.
Tun...
2020-08-2727 min
Lucy Popescu PresentsS1 E7 Christina Lamb interviewChristina Lamb's latest book, Our Bodies, Their Battlefield, gives voice to women in conflict across four continents, exposing how rape is used by armies, terrorists and militias as a weapon to humiliate, terrify and carry out ethnic cleansing. Though rape was formalised as an international war crime in 1919, the International Criminal Court has convicted no one. This startling book calls on us to listen and to act against this, the world’s most neglected war crime. One of Britain’s leading foreign correspondents, Lamb has reported from most of the world’s hotspots since she was named Young Journa...
2020-07-2725 min
Lucy Popescu PresentsS1 E6 The Road to Ibadan by Caroline Haastrup-Baptiste'Drawing on her heritage, Caroline Haastrup-Baptiste's short story is inspired by her visit to Nigeria.
2020-07-2704 min
Lucy Popescu PresentsS1 E5 Guru Bob by David GoodfellowInspired by A.A. Gill's Uncle Dysfunctional, David Goodfellow's Guru Bob is openly insane and proud. On his radio show he dispenses medium-rare wisdom and tough crazy love, whether you like it or not...
Guru Bob is read by Peter Knupffer.
2020-07-0908 min
Lucy Popescu PresentsS1 E3 Interview with Tim FinchLucy interviews Tim Finch about his latest novel.
In Peace Talks, a Norwegian diplomat is coming to terms with the loss of his English wife, while chairing high profile talks in a mountain resort in Austria. As he facilitates sessions between the two ‘warring’ sides, Edvard reflects on his past with Anna and tries to find some inner calm.
2020-07-0620 min
Lucy Popescu PresentsS1 E4 Just in Case by Caroline WrightCaroline wrote this short piece in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
2020-07-0601 min
Lucy Popescu PresentsS1 E0 The power of words - Lucy PopescuLucy Popescu’s TEDx talk focuses on the power of words, free expression and the experiences of refugees. Her aim is to encourage empathy for those forced to flee their homes and foster a better understanding of their plight. Lucy Popescu is a writer and editor with a background in human rights. She worked with the English Centre of PEN, the international association of writers, for over 20 years and is a volunteer writing mentor for refugees at Freedom from Torture. This talk was given at the Royal Geographical Society using the TED conference format but independently organized by the Lo...
2020-06-1717 min
Lucy Popescu PresentsS1 E1 Nala by Georgia JohnsonNala is a snapshot of a child’s life and her collision with the adult world.
Georgia Johnson has attended several of Lucy’s writing courses.
2020-06-1702 min
Lucy Popescu PresentsS1 E2 The Internet is Fun by Benjamin BritworthThis short story plays with uncomfortable realities of the modern world through the eye of a classical fairytale genre. It received a commendation from the 15th Elmbridge Literary Competition, in 2020.
2020-06-1708 min
University of CambridgeREFUGEES: TRUTHS AND INNOCENT LIESRefugees often have to give the most personal details to prove their past and receive asylum. But how easy is it to be open and truthful in a climate of mistrust when governments are looking to keep numbers down? Lucy Popescu, editor of A Country of Refuge, speaks to asylum seekers and writers Noo Saro-Wiwa and Hassan Abdulrazzak, and Tim Finch, writer and former director of communications for the Refugee Council, about their experiences.
2017-11-0152 min
Future Forward HubNBP02 - Getting Noticed as a Writer Today we talk to Jason Donald about growing up travelling the world, his childhood dream of being a garbage man and the evolution of a writer. TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS PODCAST EPISODE: Travelling the world and learning to adapt to a new culture, food and surroundings. The journey to becoming a writer. How you never stop evolving as a writer. How to push the status quo in writing. The definition of a writer. Standing out from the crowd as a writer. The role of a writer in society. HEAR MORE ABOUT JASON DONALD:
2017-06-1254 min