Sunday 16:00-16:30, repeated Thursday 16:00-16:30, except first Sunday in the month when it is replaced by Book Club.
Open Book spotlights new fiction and non-fiction, picks out the best of the paperbacks, talks to authors and publishers, and unearths lost masterpieces.
This week
Sunday 31 December 2006
On New Year’s Eve Open Book will be examine the new features of the Indian Subcontinent’s literature …so join Mariella Frostrup and her guests, as they consider the reasons for Indian writing’s enduring vitality.
This autumn Kiran Desai was awarded the Booker Prize for only her second book – The Inheritance of Loss. It was a remarkable achievement for a writer who’s still not yet forty and it put some in mind of a similar event twenty five years earlier.
1981 was the year that Salman Rushdie won the Booker for his second book, Midnight’s Children and established the credentials of Indian writing once and for all.
There could hardly be a better time to consider how and why Indian writing has changed and on New Year’s Eve Open Book will be examining the new features of the Subcontinent’s literature, so join Mariella Frostrup and her guests, Kiran Desai, Amit Chaudhuri, Gautam Malkani and Peter Kemp as they consider the reasons for Indian writing’s enduring vitality.
