A conversation with Siri Hustvedt and Margriet De Moor hosted by Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker.
Margriet de Moor is the award-winning Dutch author of Duke of Egypt and The Kreutzer Sonata.
Siri Hustvedt's (Norway/United States) work has been published in The Paris Review. She is also the author of a book of poetry and several novels, including The Blindfold, THe Enchantment of Lily Dahl, and What I Loved.
Each of these writers has authored books that were later made into films. Together, they discuss the pleasures and trials of the process and what happens to literature along the way.
Gener Seymour is the film critic for Newsday.
Dany Laferriere's (Haiti/Canada) short stories served as the basis of the film Heading South. He is a novelist, essayist, poet, and journalist. His first novel, How to Make Love to a Negro, was adapted into a screenplay and earned a Genie Award nomination for best adapted screenplay in 1990.
Niccolo Ammaniti's (Italy) novel I'm Not Scared was made into a film of the same name by Gabriele Salvatores. He was the youngest-ever winner of the Viareggio-Repaci prize for this novel as well. His latest novel in English is I'll Steal You Away.
Steve Martin (United States) adapted his novella Shopgirl and then acted in the film. He's also written The Pleasure of My Company and the collection of comic pieces, Pure Drivel. His work frequently appears in The New Yorker and The New York Times.
Susan Orlean (United States) saw herself played by Meryl Streep when her story about orchid enthusiasts became the film Adaptation. She's been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992 and her articles have also appeard in Outside, Rolling Stone, Vogue, and Esquire.
Colin Harrison, stepping in for Aice Seybold, takes us on a tour of the dark passages of Mediterranean Noir. Tonight's panelists discuss why this is one of the most important and popular literary movements to emerge from Europe in the last decade and how they use a special kind of local crime fiction to explore global themes.
Colin Harrison (United States) is the deputy editor of Harper's Magazine and the author of Break and Enter, Bodies Electric, Manhattan Nocturne, and Afterburn.
Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett (Spain) was awarded the Feminino Lumen prize for best female writer in Spain. Her book Dog Day is the first installment of her Inspector Petra Delicado mystery series to be published in English.
Carlo Lucarelli (Italy) is a journalist, playwright, and screenwriter and has written 11 noir novels and colections of stories, including Almost Blue and Day After Day. He lives in Bologna, where he teaches writing, edits and online magazine, and sings in a post-punk band.
Massimo Carlotto's (Italy) first novel, Fugitive, was made into a film in 2003. Fugitive is based on the years he spent on the run after being convicted of a murder he says he didn't commit. Two of his most recent novels, The Godbye Kiss and Death's Dark Abyss, are also being made into films.
Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of former Algerian officer turned French novelist Mohanmmed Moulessehoul. His prolific body of work has been published in 20 languages in all, and includes The Swallows of Kabul and The Attack. He received the Prix des Libraires in 2006.