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Sarah Bakewell talks with Alberto Arruda

The Art of Biography

Sarah Bakewell and Professor Alberto Arruda discuss the art of writing biographies, the existentialists and her passion for philosophy.
26 Apr 2024 85 min
The Art of Biography

The author of How to Live: a life of Montaigne, which won the Duff Cooper Prize and the US National Book Critics Circle Prize, and At the Existentialist Café, a New York Times Ten Best Books of 2016, is one of the speakers invited to discuss ‘the art of biography’ in an international conference dedicated to this form of literature.  

Sarah Bakewell was also among the winners of the 2018 Windham-Campbell Literature.

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