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Dossier: Talking about writing

October 22, 2009

From the latest Dan Brown blockbuster through to the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Find out more about your favorite, or soon to be favorite authors with these author portraits and interviews.

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From the latest blockbuster through to the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, find out more about a few of your favorite - or soon to be favorite - authors with these Deutsche Welle portraits and interviews.

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Frank McCourt Interview

englisch: Frank McCourt Interview - Produziert: 22.10.2009 - 13:34:37 von Breandain O'Shea
October 22, 200913:06 min

Ian McEwan Interview

englisch: Ian McEwan Interview - Produziert: 22.10.2009 - 13:51:26 von Breandain O'Shea
October 22, 200913:34 min

Kevin Brooks Interview

englisch: Kevin Brooks Interview - Produziert: 22.10.2009 - 12:54:17 von Cheryl Northey
October 22, 200904:17 min

Asa Larrson Interview

englisch: Asa Larrson Interview - Produziert: 22.10.2009 - 13:49:34 von Breandain O'Shea
October 22, 200913:19 min
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October 18, 2009

The Secrets of Success

Malcolm Gladwell on the importance of culture for success, on Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama.
February 11, 2009

Arts.21 # The Outsiders – T.C. Boyle's Novel about Frank Lloyd Wright # 04.04.2009

T.C. Boyle has a been a punk, a drifter and an occasional junkie. He's a cult American writer, but still something of an outsider. In his latest novel, T.C. Boyle takes a look at another cult figure and outsider: the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. ARTS.21 caught up with T. C. Boyle in Berlin for a chat about the new book, his reputation and the American dream.
April 5, 200906:14 min

Arts.21 # Between Berlin and Bombay – The Indian Writer Kiran Nagarkar # 24.01.2009

Novelist, playwright and screenplay writer Kiran Nagarkar is one of India's finest bilingual authors. Loved and hated in equal measure, Kiran Nagarkar is the enfant terrible of Indian literature. The provocative writer enchants readers wIth his sense of humor and rich storytelling. Writing in English, he decries fundamentalism of every stripe and calls religion a mental disturbance. His recent novel «God's Little Soldier» took on a tragic timeliness in the wake of the Islamist attacks in Bombay. Kiran Nagarkar is currently in Berlin and ARTS.21 paid him a call.
January 25, 200906:15 min