![]() But first, you say he was not only the father of the essay but that 21st-century bloggers owe him too. Ramona Koval: Your enthusiasms for Montaigne is clear from the verve in your writing of his life and works, and I'm sure we're going to hear all about that soon, and the way you approached him was completely original, it seems to me. ![]() Sarah Bakewell is an acclaimed writer of course but she's also a part-time cataloguer of rare books at the National Trust in London. How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, to give it the full title, has won Sarah Bakewell the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in the United States, and the Duff Cooper Prize for non-fiction in the UK. In short, his enterprise was to try and tell us how to live and that's the title of a marvellous biography of Michel de Montaigne by our guest today. The man who was born in 1533 and died at the age of 59 wrote a collection of musings wrote a collection of musings he called his Essays, a book that was an instant bestseller and that even today speaks of sorrow, liars, fear and the force of imagination. ![]() ![]() Ramona Koval: By anyone's measure, the career success of Renaissance French nobleman Michel de Montaigne has been stupendous. ![]()
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