280126 Podcast EOI Inglés Ep.12 J.K. Rowling rose from single motherhood on public assistance to become the beloved author of the globally successful Harry Potter series, a story about an orphaned wizard discovering his magical world, which began publication in 1997. Beyond the Wizarding World, she writes adult fiction and other books for children. She also stands out [...]
021225 Podcast EOI Inglés Ep.11 In this episode we are not going to talk about one specific writer, but about one specific topic, violence against women, and about writers who have written about it. Let us not forget that the 25th of last November was the International Day for the elimination of Violence against women, and…let us NOT be quiet [...]
050525 Podcast EOI Inglés Ep.10 Sheila Jeffreys was born in the United Kingdom in 1948 and moved to Melbourne in 1991 where she worked as a professor of political science at the University of Melbourne. She’s an author of non-fiction and she focuses her work in the areas of sexual politics, international gender politics, and lesbian [...]
140425 Podcast EOI Inglés Ep. 9 Welcome to episode 9 of A TALLER MOUNTAIN, in which we want to commemorate the WORLD POETRY DAY, which is celebrated every year on 21 March. This day honours one of the most cherished forms of human expression and linguistic identity, poetry. Practiced throughout history in all cultures and on [...]
280225 Podcast EOI Inglés Ep.8 Today we’ll be talking about the renowned writer Maggie O’Farrell. Born in Northern Ireland in 1972, in the year 2000 she published her debut novel, After You’d Gone, and she is now the author of highly acclaimed novels such as The Hand That First Held Mine, Instructions for a Heatwave, This Must [...]
310125 Podcast EOI Inglés Ep.7 Virginia Woolf In this episode we talk about the great feminist icon, Virginia Woolf. Born in 1882, Virginia was an influential English writer and a central figure in the modernist literary movement. Known for her innovative narrative techniques, such as stream of consciousness, her notable works include A Room of One’s [...]
231224 Podcast EOI Inglés Ep.6 Louisa May Alcott, Joan Didion, Agatha Christie and many more women have written about Christmas, a time when women have been pictured as caring and as the glue of the family unit, and also a time when women feel they should not put up with the burden of having to care [...]
051224 Podcast EOI Inglés Ep.5 In this episode we pay homage to a fascinating Irish writer, EDNA O’BRIEN, who died in London last August at the age of 93. A fearless, outspoken and often controversial figure, O’Brien wrote more than 20 novels, biographies, as well as plays, screenplays and a memoir. I also interview Irene Ruiz, another [...]
081124 EOI Episode 4. Philippa Gregory After a few summery months, A TALLER MOUNTAIN IS BACK. And we are delighted because we have to celebrate! What? Not a few things: last 19th of October was WOMEN WRITERS DAY; a woman, HAN KANG, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature; and two women writers have won two [...]
160524 Podcast EOI Inglés WHY “A TALLER MOUNTAIN”? In this episode you’ll find out why the name of this podcast is A TALLER MOUNTAIN, and much more. We talk about the amazing Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a novelist and an essayist of postcolonial feminist literature. She is the author of the award-winning novels Purple Hibiscus, [...]