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Kiran Desai on loneliness, legacy and the curse of rewriting

Georgina Godwin is joined by Kiran Desai, whose novel ‘The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny’ was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize. She discusses her New Delhi childhood, political unrest and the influence of her mother, Anita Desai. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Mitchell Kaplan, the founder of Miami Book Fair

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  Harlan Greene at the 2025 Charleston Literary Festival

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  The winner of the 2025 Booker Prize: David Szalay

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  The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 winner: Helen Garner

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  Richard Armitage and the power of storytelling

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  Richard Lloyd Parry and the journeys within stories

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  Olivier Norek on courage, conflict and history

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  Sam Sussman on the possibility of family ties

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  Juhea Kim on stories woven from silence

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  Priyanka Mattoo on the search for home

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  Michael Wolff on chaos, power and America’s reckoning

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  R James Breiding on what small nations teach the world

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  Michelle de Kretser on literature and belonging

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  Iain Sinclair on London, literature and hidden journeys

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  Nick Berg on revolutions, exile and the stories that we inherit