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Front Row: Salman Rushdie on Quichotte, Joanna Hogg on The Souvenir

Salman Rushdie on Quichotte, Joanna Hogg on The Souvenir

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Salman Rushdie on his new novel Quichotte, based on the Cervantes classic, Don Quixote.

Salman Rushdie discusses his new Booker-longlisted novel, Quichotte, and film director Joanna Hogg on her latest work, The Souvenir, featuring Tilda Swinton.

Sir Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children has twice been named the Best of Booker.  Now his new novel Quichotte, a modern take on Cervantes' classic that is both a satire of modern politics and a consideration of familial love, has been Booker longlisted.  Rushdie discusses writing about the new politics, family, and keeping up with popular culture.

Director Joanna Hogg discusses her new film The Souvenir, in which a young film student in the early '80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man. Honor Swinton Byrne plays the student, with her real-life mother Tilda Swinton playing the matriarch of the well-to-do family.

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