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Norman Lebrecht is a prolific and cultural commentator and an award-winning novelist.
He has written twelve books about music, which have been translated into 17 languages. The latest is Why Mahler?, a challenging new interpretation of the most influential composer of modern times. See Books for more details. Also back in print is Mahler Remembered (Faber, 1987).
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Norman Lebrecht’s first novel The Song of Names won a Whitbread Award in 2003. His second, The Game of Opposites, was published in 2007 by Pantheon Books. A third is in preparation.
A collection of Lebrecht essays was published in China in 2011, the first such anthology by any western cultural writer.
The Lebrecht Interview runs weekly on BBC Radio 3 throughout the BBC Proms.
Works in progress include a stage play and various radio and television documentaries.
For photos covering the life and works of creators, the opera houses and theatres where they worked, the societies they lived in and the personalities with whom they are associated – from Shakespeare to Chagall and Saul Bellow to Stalin – we recommend a visit to the world’s largest resource for music images and all creative arts www.lebrecht.co.uk
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