Salman Rushdie on Quichotte, Joanna Hogg on The Souvenir
Salman Rushdie discusses his new Booker-longlisted novel, Quichotte, and film director Joanna Hogg on her latest work, The Souvenir, featuring Tilda Swinton.
Sir Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children has twice been named the Best of Booker. Now his new novel Quichotte, a modern take on Cervantes' classic that is both a satire of modern politics and a consideration of familial love, has been Booker longlisted. Rushdie discusses writing about the new politics, family, and keeping up with popular culture.
Director Joanna Hogg discusses her new film The Souvenir, in which a young film student in the early '80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man. Honor Swinton Byrne plays the student, with her real-life mother Tilda Swinton playing the matriarch of the well-to-do family.
Presenter Stig Abell
Producer Jerome Weatherald
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Salman Rushdie on Quichotte
by Μύ is out now in hardback, and is alsoΜύavailable as an eBook and an Audio download
Images:
Main image above: Sir Salman Rushdie
Image credit: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images
Image to the left: Salman Rushdie with Stig Abell (Right)
Image with the clip above: Salman Rushdie
Image credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
The Souvenir
is available online for streaming, and is in UK cinemas fromΜύnow, certificate 15.
Image: Tilda Swinton, Tom Burke and Honor Swinton Byrne in The Souvenir
Image credit: Nikola Dove/courtesy of Curzon
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