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Podcast: The Hidden Lives of Writers
Episode: S03 E04 Ron Irwin
Description: Ron Irwin is the acclaimed author of Flat Water Tuesday and My Side of the Ocean, which was recently published by Pan Macmillan. He is a senior lecturer in Media Studies at UCT and teaches in the UCT Creative Writing Masters programme.
Ron joins Fiona Snyckers and Gail Schimmel to talk about how deciding to write a book that he would give an A to instead of a D, transformed his writing career years ago.
Ron shares what it is like to have a novel in script development in Hollywood, and tells us why his latest...