Today’s guest is a truly remarkable creative – novellist, screenwriter, playwright, producer, past resident of the Royal Court Theatre, co-founder of the Harvard Human Rights Journal, winner of the John Cassavetes Award for film, as well as the first American to receive a fellowship to the European Court of Human Rights. I spoke with Alice Austen about her debut book, 33 Place Brugmann, which is a suspenseful, emotive portrait of a Brussels apartment block during the Second World War. It’s always a pleasure to speak with such a fascinating polymath, and I hope you all enjoy listening.

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Alice Austen’s four books were:

• Dubliners, James Joyce (1914)

• 100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez (1967)

• Tropisms, Nathalie Sarraute (1939)

• Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy (1891)