Marcia Franklin talks with Emily Ruskovich, the author of Idaho: A Novel. In 2019, the novel won the Dublin Literary Award, worth more than $100,000. Ruskovich reflects on what it has been like to win the award. The two also discuss the plot of Idaho, whose setting is based on the landscape of Ruskovich's childhood in northern Idaho.

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Originally Aired: 11/1/2019

The interview is part of Dialogue's series "Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers' Conference" and was taped at the 2019 conference. Since 1995, the conference has been bringing together some of the world's most well-known and illuminating authors to discuss literature and life.