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International bestselling novelist Tayari Jones
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Nikki Bedi meets international bestselling author Tayari Jones whose award-winning novel ‘An American Marriage’ was chosen by Oprah Winfrey for her Book Club and was championed by former US President Barack Obama. As an important contemporary voice in American fiction, Tayari is celebrated for writing about race, class, and life in the American South, all of which feature in her latest novel Kin. Director and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman talks about using poetry in his films. Singer-songwriter Jill Scott on collaborating with hip-hop legends The Roots, French actor Isabelle Huppert on her role in the film, The Richest Woman in the World. Literary translator Lin King, explains her work on this year’s International Booker Prize winning novel, Taiwan Travelogue. Plus, some desert blues from Malian band Tamikrest. Tayari Jones and film critic Guy Lodge join Nikki in conversation about the week’s cultural highlights. (Photo: Author Tayari Jones. Credit: Julie Yarborough)

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