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The Book Café: Audrey Niffenegger

06/12/2010

Audrey Niffenegger

BBC Radio Scotland - The Book Café, Audrey Niffenegger

Stuart Kelly, literary editor of Scotland on Sunday, talks to Audrey Niffenegger.

Stuart Kelly, literary editor of Scotland on Sunday, talks to Audrey Niffenegger, author of the six million-selling novel The Time Traveller's Wife'.

In this interview Stuart Kelly, Literary Editor of Scotland on Sunday, talks to Audrey Niffenegger, author of the six million- selling 'The Time Traveller's Wife' and a unique voice in contemporary literature. They discuss her writing, her inspirations and her reaction to becoming a successful novelist after years spent as a visual artist. She reveals that she only wrote 'The Time Traveller's Wife' as a conventional novel because it wasn't working as a graphic novel and coins a description for her new book, calling it 'the 21st century 19th century novel'.

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