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[Paul Browning]

Eleanor Wachtel lecture
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Subject: Eleanor Wachtel lecture


  November 20, 2003 Thursday at 4:30 in room 3181 AQ SFU Burnaby

  The Life of Writers in Difficult Times
  Eleanor Wachtel

  As part of the Leon and Thea Koerner Lecture Series: The New World Order After Iraq -- Negotiating Citizenship, radio broadcaster Eleanor Wachtel will reflect on her conversations with selected internationally-known authors, their experiences of conflict and the difficulty these pose for writing, publication, reading and local and global reception.  How do writers negotiate national citizenship within a global context?
  Eleanor Wachtel has been host of CBC Radio's "Writers and Company" since its inception in 1990, bringing her thoughtfulness to conversations with writers such as Salman Rushdie, Susan Sontag, Martin Amis and Isabel Allende. She is also the host of CBC Radio One's daily magazine program "The Arts Today."


    Eleanor Wachtel writes:
               
    My talk 'The Lives of Writers in Difficult Times' looks at several
    aspects of the relationship between the writer and the work.  First, the
    appetite for literary biography and how greater knowledge of the life
    may affect the reader's appreciation of the work.  Then, drawing on my
    personal experience as host of CBC Radio's "Writers & Company", I look
    at specific instances of how writers reveal what is primary to them;then at writers as exiles or outsiders, literally or metaphorically, and
    how that affects their angle of obervation.


  Sponsored by the Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation, the Institute for the Humanities, Burnaby Mountain College and the Office of the VP Academic, SFU.


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