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Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books

Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books, talking to authors and publishers and unearthing lost classics

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Mariella Frostrup

Hanan al-Shaykh

Nada Awar Jarrar

Ceridwen Dovey

Open Book: Ceridwen Dovey, Lebanese writers Nada Awar Jarrar and Hanan al-Shaykh

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24/06/2018

Ceridwen Dovey, Lebanese writers Nada Awar Jarrar and Hanan al-Shaykh

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Ceridwen Dovey, Lebanese writers Nada Awar Jarrar and Hanan al-Shaykh

Hanan al-Shaykh talks to Mariella Frostrup.

Mariella Frostrup talks to Hanan al-Shaykh, one of the Arab world's most acclaimed writers, about exploring female identity in her new novel The Occasional Virgin.

Acclaimed Lebanese writers Hanan al-Shaykh and Nada Awar Jarrar, talk to Mariella Frostrup about their latest novels, and discuss representing their home country in fiction and why they are both especially interested in the lives of Beiruti women. 
Also on the programme a scheme to find a new way of paying authors with an annual salary instead of the traditional advance system; Ceridwen Dovey on her new book all told in an exchange of emails which gradually reveals dark secrets, and a tip for a July read.

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