Michèle Roberts is the author of twelve highly-acclaimed novels, including The Looking Glass and Daughters of the House which won the W.H. Smith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She has also published poetry and short stories, and is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
Topics: Born a twin. Growing up in Edgware outside London; summer holidays in Etretat, Normandy; Roman Catholic schooling and rebellion; becoming a writer and being published by The Womens Press and Virago culture and creative freedom in the 1970s and 1980s; feminism then and now; the influence of biculturalism; the shock of rejection, learning and rebuilding from it.
Title focus: Negative Capability: A Diary of Surviving, published 28 May 2020 – visit www.sandstonepress.com
Recorded by telephone on the eve of the Covid 19 Lockdown
Presented by Georgia de Chamberet | Produced by Rupert Such, Biscuittown Productions
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Bridging the Divide #13 | Lucy Popescu & Natasha Lehrer discuss Nathalie Leger’s The White Dress
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Bridging the Divide #10 | Interview: Tahar Ben Jelloun, On Terrorism
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Bridging the Divide #5 | Interview : James Womack, translator
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Bridging the Divide #3 | Interview: Rose (Eland) Robyn Marsack (translator)
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