The Bookshelf Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos, winner of the 2024 International Booker Prize
Jun 17, 2024
54:00
Cassie and Kate discuss Jenny Erpenbecks' Kairos (winner of the 2024 International Booker Prize) with critic Declan Fry - originally broadcast August 2023 when the book was first published; and interviews with writers A K Blakemore (The Glutton), Daniel Mason (North Woods) and Gretchen Shirm (The Crying Room) by Kate Evans.
BOOKS
- Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann, Granta
- A K Blakemore, The Glutton, Granta
- Daniel Mason, North Woods, John Murray
- Gretchen Shirm, The Crying Room, Transit Lounge.
GUESTS
- Declan Fry, poet, essayist and critic – who regularly reviews for the Age/ SMH, the Guardian and ABC Arts online.
- A K Blakemore, English poet and writer whose novels are The Manningtree Witches and The Glutton
- Daniel Mason, American writer, physician and academic, whose novels include The Piano Tuner, The Winter Soldier, A Registry of my Passage Upon the Earth and North Woods
- Gretchen Shirm, Australian essayist, critic, novelist and shortstory writer whose books are Having Cried Wolf, Where the Light Falls and The Crying Room
CREDITS
- Presenter/ Producer: Kate Evans
- Sound Engineer: Ann-Marie De Bettencor
- Executive Producer: Rhiannon Brown