Claire Nicholls
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2,363 appearances
20 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2020
last heard 13 Sep
Claire Nicholls’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Jan won the Booker and there was an Ang Lee movie adaptation.
And now Jan is back with another novel about myth and storytelling.
This one is called Son of Nobody.
It retells the Iliad from the perspective of a commoner.
But that's not all.
There is also a whole other story hidden in the footnotes.
I met Jan Martell on Gadigal land for the Sydney Writers Festival.
It's great to have you here, Jan.
You are kind of known as a man of the world.
You've lived and travelled to all sorts of places.
What does Greece mean to you?
Midnight Express.
You said you knew the Greek myths as a child.
They seem to be something that capture all children.
What do you think it is about these tales that are so invigorating for us?
So when was that?
When did you first sit down to read the Iliad?
I hate to be very simple here, Jan, but for those of us who have still not read The Iliad, what are the basics?
What's the basics of this story that we actually need to know?
But do you think there's something there in that so little facts perhaps make for a better story than we could have if we had more detail?
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