What questions would you ask these authors?

[Matt444]

What questions would you ask these authors?

Ian McEwan, the author of Atonement.
Joanna Trollope, her current book The Other Family is number 6 in the top ten fiction hardback.
Antonia Fraser, the widow of Harold Pinter and author of Marie Antoinette, the international bestseller.

They are all appearing on a Sky Arts programme this evening called The Book Show at 7pm. Mariella Frostrup asks the authors questions on her sofa - I was wondering what the best questions for the authors could be...

I want her to ask Ian McEwan whether he expected Atonement to become one of the biggest films of 2007 - I also hear he is planning to turn it into an Opera!

I found out about the show here by visiting skyarts.co.uk

Matt

[keilj]

What questions would you ask these authors?

Ian McEwan, the author of Atonement.
Joanna Trollope, her current book The Other Family is number 6 in the top ten fiction hardback.
Antonia Fraser, the widow of Harold Pinter and author of Marie Antoinette, the international bestseller.

They are all appearing on a Sky Arts programme this evening called The Book Show at 7pm. Mariella Frostrup asks the authors questions on her sofa - I was wondering what the best questions for the authors could be...

I want her to ask Ian McEwan whether he expected Atonement to become one of the biggest films of 2007 - I also hear he is planning to turn it into an Opera!

I found out about the show here by visiting skyarts.co.uk

Matt

just a thought - but I bet McEwan gets movie questions all the time. I might ask him something more about the book itself - or perhaps if there were things in the book that he wished had made it into the movie

[kelby_lake]

Ian McEwan- Have you ever considered making On Chesil Beach into a film? :rofl:
Antonia Fraser- Dunno. Something about one of Pinter's works.

[janesmith]

Having read Fraser's "Marie Antoinette" I'd have to ask her whether she truly pitied the French queen. She certainly seems to. It's a great read.

[mal4mac]

I recently saw Ian McEwan introduced as the modern-day Charles Dickens. I'd ask him what he thought about that, and who *he* would rate as the 'new' Dickens. Then I'd ask Joanna and Antonia who they thought were the best of the current crop of modern novelists. I like McEwan's novels, so I wouldn't mind some reading tips from him. I haven't read anything by the other two writers, but they always strike me as level headed in interviews. Looks like a programme wroth watching! Unfortunately I don't get sky :( Found some videos here though :):

http://www.youtube.com/thebookshow

[Pecksie]

I would ask Antonia Fraser how she manages to write such scholarly and yet entertaining biographies. She undoubtedly has access to lots of information and documents probably not available to the general public, but she also has the will to do serious research and the ability to make us care for her subjects.

[dfloyd]

Ian McCewan - Do you realize most of your books are boring?
Joanna Trollope - Are you related to Anthony Trollope?
Antonia Fraser - Was Marie Antoinette really a lesbian?