Maggie O’Farrell / ‘The worst thing anyone’s said to me? You’ll never walk again’

 

Maggie O'Farrell

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Maggie O'Farrell: "¿Lo peor que me han dicho? Nunca volverás a caminar".

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La autora habla de su tartamudez, de mentirle a su peluquero y de su mal reciclaje. 

Rosanna Greenstreet

Sábado, 25 de marzo de 2023

BNacida en Irlanda del Norte, Maggie O'Farrell, de 50 años, estudió en la Universidad de Cambridge y luego se convirtió en periodista. Su primera novela,  After You'd Gone , ganó el premio Betty Trask en 2001. Entre sus libros posteriores se incluyen  The Hand That First Held Mine , ganadora del premio Costa Book Award en 2010, y las memorias  I Am, I Am, I Am . Su última novela es  The Marriage Portrait . La adaptación teatral de  Hamnet , ganadora del premio Women's Prize de ficción en 2020, se presenta en el  RSC Swan Theatre  de Stratford del 1 de abril al 17 de junio y en el Garrick Theatre de Londres del 30 de septiembre al 6 de enero de 2024. Está casada, tiene tres hijos y reside en Edimburgo.

 

Maggie O’Farrell

How to write a book in 30 days

Maggie O'Farrell: How I write

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The author of the Costa award-winning The Hand That First Held Mine on writing while caring for a young child.

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Maggie O’Farrell

Thursday 18 October 2012

Maggie O’Farrell / 'I've revealed the secrets I’ve spent my life hiding'

 

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Maggie O’Farrell: 'I've revealed the secrets I’ve spent my life hiding'

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‘I never thought I’d write a memoir. It felt too much of a tax on friends and family,’ says Maggie O’Farrell. Photograph: Kate Peters/The Guardian

An armed ambush, a traumatic labour, near drownings... The novelist tells Decca Aitkenhead about her brushes with death

Saturday 12 August 2017

In an average year, Maggie O’Farrell comes close to death once or twice. Seized with terror, she dials 999 and is rushed to hospital in a white-knuckle dash that navigates the border of life and death. Breathing becomes impossible, the skin bubbles and blisters; as consciousness fades, cardiac arrest can be just minutes away. The death O’Farrell must come this close to, over and again, is not her own but her daughter’s.

 

Amanda Seyfried
on Masks,
Lexapro, and
Letting it all Go

By Taylore Scarabelli

Photographed by Ben Taylor

February 13, 2026

I’m at Angelika East for the premiere of Mona Fastvold’s Discipline, a conceptual, dance-centric short commissioned by Miu Miu Women’s Tales. This is the 31st film in a series created to “celebrate femininity and vanity,” and I can’t think of a better subject to toast to. Speaking of toasts, there are trays of champagne, Miu Miu-branded popcorn bags, and a lot of delicious outfits. Our modern day Bessette is here (Sarah Pidgeon), as is Chloë Sevigny, Myha’la Herrold,  Hailey Gates, and just about every other New York It girl with a proximity to film and fashion. More importantly, the literal star of the show Amanda Seyfried has just slid up to the step and repeat, and I only have three minutes to interview her.

When Valentino Garavani Took Andy Warhol Shopping on Fifth Avenue

Valentino with Marisa Berenson at the opening of his boutique in Paris.

When Valentino
Garavani Took
Andy Warhol
Shopping on
Fifth Avenue

By Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello

January 20, 2026

For our December 1975 issue, Valentino Garavani spent the day with Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello to ring in the opening of his boutique on Fifth Avenue. Between playing dress-up and spontaneous encounters with legends like Liza Minelli, Shirley Goldfarb, and Marisa Berenson, it was a day of culture, opulence, and gossip on Billionaire’s Row. Following the announcement of Valentino’s passing this week at the age of 93, we took a dip into the Interview archives to bring this iconic conversation between two titans of art and fashion to light.

Young Jodie Foster Visits Andy Warhol at The Factory

 

Jodie Foster on the cover of June 1980 issue of Interview.

A Young Jodie
Foster Visits
Andy Warhol
at The Factory

By Andy Warhol

Photographed by Bob Kiss

February 27, 2024

After the twisted ending of Issa Lopez’s True Detective: Night Country, we decided to recirculate a conversation between Andy Warhol and the show’s star, Jodie Foster, who skillfully embodied the energy of a moody and complex female anti-hero, alongside her costar Kali Reis. Today, we revisit the June 1980 issue, in which a teenage Jodie Foster, just before her senior prom, joined Warhol at The Factory to discuss her burgeoning stardom and college acceptances, all while managing to dodge questions about her romantic life with humor and poise.

The Olsen / The Row

 

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The Row

By Anne Slowey

Photographed by Steven Pan

September 24, 2011

When we first started, we wanted to have a front man because we just knew how hard it was going to be.Mary-Kate Olsen

Women we love / Elizabeth Olsen II

  

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Women we love / Elizabeth Olsen

 

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Cemetery Strolls with Writers by Cees Nooteboom

 

Cemetery Strolls with Writers: Cees Nooteboom

BYTOBIAS WENZEL

Invalidenfriedhof
Berlin, Germany
December 16, 2009

“Writers in cemeteries around the world? That book already exists. Cees Nooteboom wrote it.” I remember turning very red on that day in early 2009 when my colleague at Deutschlandradio Kultur spoke those words. “He made it in collaboration with his wife, a photographer.” My heart throbbed in my throat. I went to the nearest computer to do a search and found Nooteboom’s book Tumbas: Graves of Poets and Thinkers. I eased myself into the office chair. Nooteboom had not written about any living authors in cemeteries.

 

Review

The Foxes Come at Night by Cees Nooteboom - review

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A meditation on the end of things from one of our most remarkable writers

Alberto Manguel
Friday 22 July 2011

We have no patience with death these days. The idea of letting our every third thought be the grave seems inadmissible in a society that values above all a paradoxical mixture of speed and immortality. The stories we prefer must be told quickly, and allow for little pause and less reflection. Our preferred condition is foolishness.

Cees Nooteboom, Dutch novelist and travel writer, dies aged 92

 

Cees Nooteboom, Dutch novelist and travel writer, dies aged 92

Writer made international breakthrough with 1980 novel Rituals and won acclaim for his travel writing

Cees Nooteboom /  Journeys of the Mind

Philip Oltermann 

Wed 11 Feb 2026 

The Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom, whose novels, travel writing and translations made him a prominent literary figure in postwar Europe, has died aged 92.