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Christos Tsiolkas on beauty and art

The Book Show

English - November 14, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
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"I can't separate the erotic and the sensual from the beautiful." Melbourne Prize for Literature winner, Christos Tsiolkas on his latest novel 7½ which explores what it means to be a writer and the role of beauty in fiction.

Also, Rebecca Starford and Steven Carroll on the real life characters that inspired their World War II novels, The Imitator and O.