Benjamin Moser at Jaipur Literature Festival 2025

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  Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers.

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  I'm Georgina Godwin.

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  The show today was recorded on the sidelines of the Jaipur Literature Festival in India.

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  My guest, just one of the Pulitzer Prize winners speaking at the festival,

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  was born in Houston and now lives in the Netherlands.

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  He's the author of why this World?

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  A biography of Clarice Le Spectre,

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  a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the New York Times notable book of 2009.

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  For his work bringing Clarice Lispector to international prominence,

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  he received Brazil's first state prize for cultural diplomacy.

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  He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017.

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  And for Sontag, her life and Work, he won the Pulitzer.

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  His most recent book, the Upside Down Meetings with the Dutch masters, appeared in 2020.

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  Benjamin Moser, welcome to Meet the Writers.

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  Thank you so much.

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  So here we are.

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  We're in Jaipur.

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  And of course,

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  that explains the bird song and the buzz of conversation you can hear in the background.

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  But I would first just like for you to just set

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