Eleanor Wachtel OC | |
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Born | 1947 (age 76–77) |
Occupation | Broadcaster |
Eleanor Wachtel OC (born 1947 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian writer and broadcaster. She is the host of the flagship literary show Writers & Company on CBC Radio One, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in October 2015.[1] Her interviews for Writers & Company are in-depth portraits of literary figures which over the years have included Saul Bellow, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje and Mordecai Richler.[2] Kazuo Ishiguro, author of Remains of the Day, has called Wachtel "one of the very finest interviewers of authors I've come across anywhere in the world."[3] At the end of their conversation in 2013, John le Carré told her, "You do it better than anyone I know."