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Jenny Erpenbeck, Margaret Atwood on a classic dystopia, Paintings in fiction

Chris Power talks to German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck about her new non-fiction collection, Not A Novel. And Margaret Atwood introduces Yevgeny Zamyatin's classic dystopia, We.

Chris Power talks to Jenny Erpenbeck, the prize-winning German novelist behind Go, Went, Gone and The End of Days. Her latest book, Not A Novel, is a collection of non-fiction combining essays and lectures with insightful insights from growing up in Berlin.

Yevgeny Zamyatin's landmark dystopia We, a direct influence on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984, is a hundred years old. Margaret Atwood joins to discuss her introduction to a new translation, along with Professor of Russian literature at UCL, Maria Rubins.

And Irish author Neil Hegarty takes us on a visual journey of paintings in fiction, two mediums which have long complimented each other.

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28 minutes

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  • Sun 29 Nov 2020 16:00
  • Thu 3 Dec 2020 15:30

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