How I Wrote This

We’re working our way through the finalists for the 2024 Giller Prize. In Episode 2 of this three-episodeseries, we hear from: Claire Messud (This Strange Eventful History), Jane Urquhart (In Winter I Get Up at Night), Corinna Chong (Bad Land), and Shashi Bhat (Death by a Thousand Cuts).Listen to our conversations now.How I Wrote This is created and hosted by Pamela HensleyPresented by Knockabout MediaOriginal music by Tyler K. RaumanFind out more at our website: www.howiwrotethisthepodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The 2024 Giller longlist celebrates the best in Canadian fiction. Twelve titles were selected from 112 books published between Oct.1. 2023 and Aug. 16, 2024. In this mini-series, which is a departure from our usual format, you’ll hear readings from the nominated books and brief conversations with their authors.In this first episode, Pamela is joined by: Caroline Adderson (A Way to be Happy), katherena vermette (real ones), and Loghan Paylor (The Cure for Drowning).Listen to our conversations now.How I Wrote This is created and hosted by Pamela HensleyPresented by Knockabout Media. Original music by Tyler K. RaumanFind out more at our website: www.howiwrotethisthepodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shaena Lambert has published two collections of short stories, The Falling Woman and Oh, my darling and two novels, Radiance and Petra and been nominated for literary prizes including the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Danuta Gleed Award, and the Frank O'Connor Award for the Short Story. A Canadian with German heritage, she talks about echoes from the past and how the artistic legacy of her great-grandfather, grandfather, mother - and aunt, an 80-year-old burlesque dancer who was inducted into the Las Vegas Burlesque Hall of Fame - has left its mark on her.While an activist in the Canadian Peace Movement in the ‘80s and ‘90s, Shaena met Petra Kelly, the charismatic leader of the Green Party in West Germany, and Petra’s lover, Gert Bastien, who accompanied her. After the shock of her death, Petra became the subject of Sheana’s second novel.Off the Record, edited by John Metcalf, is the most recent collection of essays and short stories where you can find Shaena’s writing. Listen to our conversation now.How I Wrote This is created and hosted by Pamela HensleyPresented by Knockabout Media. Original music by Tyler K. RaumanFind out more at our website: www.howiwrotethisthepodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wiebke von Carolsfeld spent her childhood in West Berlin, studied Literature and Art History in Cologne, and apprenticed at the publisher Kiepenheuer & Witch shortly after they’d acquired the rights to The Satanic Verses. When she emigrated to Toronto, for language reasons, she shifted her aspirations to film. One of her early projects, Eisenstein, resulted in a nomination for Best Editing at the Genies. Wiebke is one of only a handful of women in Canada who has directed three or more feature films. In 2002, she directed Marion Bridge, which starred Molly Parker and won Best First Canadian Feature at TIFF. She went on to direct Stay with Taylor Shilling and Aidan Quinn and The Saver, which won her a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2016 at the Canadian Screen Awards. The novel Claremont is Wiebke’s first book and it’s been optioned for a limited series on TV. She is currently at work on her next novel as well as the development of her next film, a thriller called Someone’s Daughter.How I Wrote This is created and hosted by Pamela HensleyPresented by Knockabout Media. Original music by Tyler K. RaumanFind out more at our website: www.howiwrotethisthepodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.