Eleanor Wachtel

Eleanor Wachtel OC
Born1947 (age 76–77)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
OccupationBroadcaster

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."

  1. ^ "Twentieth Anniversary Panel". CBC News. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  2. ^ CCL Profiles in Learning (22 July 2009) Eleanor Wachtel: Research on the Radio Archived 4 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Canadian Council on Learning. Retrieved on: 2011-07-03.
  3. ^ Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. About the host. Writers and Company, cbc.ca. Retrieved on: 2011-07-03.