Elizabeth Strout’s most recent work, Olive Kitteridge, a novel in stories, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a New York Times Bestseller. She is the author of two previous novels, Abide With Me, a national bestseller, and Amy and Isabelle, also a New York Times Bestseller. (Photo by Miriam Berkley)
RADIO: OnPoint Radio Interview
May 7, 2009 – Elizabeth talks about Olive Kitteridge with Tom Ashbrook of NPR’s OnPoint Radio.
Listen to the interview at the OnPoint Radio website.
Elizabeth Strout just won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for a linked set of thirteen stories set on the coast of Maine. Small town stories. Intimate stories.
But don’t look here for lighthouses and quaint charm — for Lake Wobegon with lobsters.
Strout’s big, blunt heroine and the book’s namesake, Olive Kitteridge, is tough, wounded, wounding. She’s a force of nature — and nature creates and destroys. And endures, here in the face of infidelity, suicide, hostage-taking and life’s bewilderment.
This hour, On Point: Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Strout and “Olive Kitteridge.”
-Tom Ashbrook