Hermione Lee in conversation with Chandrahas Choudhury

Hermione Lee is a literary biographer and Professor Emeritus of English Literature. She was President of Wolfson College Oxford from 2008 to 2017 where she founded the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing in 2011. Her publications include biographies of Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton and Penelope Fitzgerald, which won the James Tait Black Prize and was one of the New York Times’s 10 best books of 2014, books on Willa Cather, Elizabeth Bowen and Philip Roth, and books on life-writing: Biography: A Very Short Introduction and Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing. She was awarded the 2020 Bio Award for her contribution to advancing the art of biography. Her biography of Tom Stoppard was published in October 2020 to great acclaim. It will be published in the USA in February 2021. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, where she serves on the Council, and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2013, she was made a Dame for services to literary scholarship.

Chandrahas Choudhury is the author of the novels Arzee the Dwarf, Clouds and Days of My China Dragon, and editor of the anthology India: A Traveller's Literary Companion. He is also a Creative Writing mentor at the University of Iowa's Summer Institute programme and an Honorary Distinguished Professor at KR Mangalam University.

Playwright Tom Stoppard’s most acclaimed creations, ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead ’, ‘The Real Thing ’, and ‘Shakespeare in Love’ remain as fresh and moving as when they entranced their first audiences. Known for his dizzying narrative inventiveness and intense attention to language across many genres, Stoppard is arguably one of the greatest living playwrights.

In this #JaipurLiteratureFestival2021 session, British biographer, literary critic and academic, Hermione Lee discusses with author Chandrahas Choudhury, her latest work ‘Tom Stoppard: A Life ’. This biography weaves Stoppard's life and work together into a vivid, insightful and riveting portrait of a remarkable man, and draws on a wealth of new materials from her many conversations with Stoppard.

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