In the Studio: Madeleine Thien

在工作室:玛德琳·赛恩

The Documentary Podcast

2025-04-28

25 分钟
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In 2020, the Canadian writer Madeleine Thien was working on her next novel, the follow-up to her prize-winning 2016 book Do Not Say We Have Nothing. But it was difficult to find the internal peace and privacy to begin again, especially after being catapulted into the public eye by the previous novel’s success. Paul Kobrak followed her over several months as she created the first drafts of the new novel. It is a process which moves from Berlin to Brooklyn and finally to Portugal's capital city Lisbon. Five years later, the novel, called The Book of Records, is being published.
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  • the programme that delves into the creative process.

  • Today,

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  • Several years ago, the world of the sea returned to me,

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