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Hello, on today's program we discuss modern Iranian literature

and reveal the correspondence between a now famous debut novelist and her publisher.

We are very much impressed by yourville, particularly by the characters of Anna and Oliver.

We also think that the novel would greatly benefit by cutting.

Another point is that you tell a lot of the story in retrospect,

and this harking back leads to a lot of rather clumsy use of the Plu Perfect.

The Plu Perfect indeed, oh for the days when publishers had time for such details.

The great poet and editor Cecil Day Lewis there writing to the young AS Buy it.

We celebrate 50 years since the publication of her first novel, The Shadow of the Sun. But first, Mary

Lawson, the acclaimed Canadian author of Crow Lake and the man-booker long listed the other

side of the bridge, both set in the bitterly cold, beautiful but isolated landscape of northern

Ontario. It's been said that if Ontario west of Toronto is Monroe country, after Nobel

winner Alice Monroe, then the North West should equally be dubbed Lawson country. So vividly

does she conjure up the stomping ground of her childhood. Although Mary Lawson left Canada as a young

woman and now lives in the rather more genteel surroundings of Kingston upon Thames in Surrey, it's this wild landscape that remains the backdrop to her tales of

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