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Writers Colson Whitehead and Isabel Allende

08/01/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Writers Colson Whitehead and Isabel Allende

Nikki Bedi speaks with two very different internationally-renowned, award-winning authors

Nikki Bedi speaks with Colson Whitehead and Isabel Allende: two very different internationally-renowned, award-winning authors.

Nikki Bedi speaks with two very different internationally-renowned, award-winning authors.

Colson Whitehead is one of Barack Obama’s favourite writers; a 2x Pulitzer Prize-winning American author whose latest novel, Harlem Shuffle, is based around a heist set in the New York of the 1960s. He talks about the art of writing, prejudice and pride, morality and power.

Isabel Allende was born in Peru in 1942 and raised in Chile. Most famous for her novel The House of the Spirits, her works have been both bestsellers and critically acclaimed, translated into more than forty-two languages and selling more than seventy-five million copies worldwide. Her latest book, Violeta, is a fictional account of one woman’s life through an extraordinary century of history. She talks about her how her own life has been - and still is - reflected through her novels.

(Photo: Isabel Allende. Credit: Lori Barra)

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