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Ben Masters, Chloe Aridjis

Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's 'Cabaret of the word', Ian's guests include novelists Chloe Aridjis and Ben Masters.

45 minutes

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Fri 29 Nov 2013 22:00

Chloe Aridjis

Chloe Aridjis was born in New York, grew up in Mexico City and the Netherlands and now lives in London. Her first novel 鈥楤ook of Clouds鈥 (Chatto) won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger in 2009. Her most recent novel, 鈥楢ssunder鈥, was published in May this year. Chloe has contributed a personal map to 鈥(Visual Editions), a set of 16 maps which asks the question Where Are You?

Ben Masters

鈥檚 debut novel 鈥楴oughties鈥 (Penguin) was published in 2012 when he was also selected as one of Vogue鈥檚 16 鈥淔aces of the Future鈥. Ben is also a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Ben has written us a short story on our theme 鈥楾hings I Don鈥檛 Want To Know'

Lisa Knapp

is a singer-songwriter, whose first album 鈥榃ild and Undaunted鈥 (Weatherbox) was released to acclaim in 2007. Lisa has just been nominated for three 大象传媒 Radio 2 Folk Awards including Folk Singer of The Year and Best Album for her follow up, 鈥楬idden Seam鈥.

Maurice Riordan

reads from his collection, 鈥楾he Water Stealer鈥 (Faber), which has just been nominated for the TS Eliot prize. Maurice also discusses his editorship of Poetry Review, which he took over earlier this year.

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