| Part of Series | The Writers Studio Season 2 |
| Length | 56:39 |
| Licensor | KERA |
| Producer(s) | KERA 90.1 and The Writer's Garret |
| Formats | Interview |
| Topics | Literature |
| Produced | 2006 |
| Added to PRX | April 14, 2006 |
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A one hour interview with internationally acclaimed author Umberto Eco
Hosted by the late Glenn Mitchell and Randy Gordon. Produced and edited by Susan Schewe. Recording by Jeff Whittington and Darrell Henke. The Technical Director was Eric Bright. Theme music by Stone Savage and engineering by Lyle Hathaway. Production assistance by Earl MacDonald and Jeff Luchsinger. The Executive Producer was Yolette Garcia. The Writer's Studio is made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Donna M. Wilhelm Family, The KERA Investment Fund, Humanities Texas, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, Paperbacks Plus, The Adolphus Hotel, Theater Three, and Gardere, Wynn, & Sewell.
English
Umberto Eco, best known for four bestselling novels, "The Name of the Rose", "Foucault's Pendulum", "The Island of the Day Before", and "Baudolino", is also a prominent literary critic and semiotician. His collections of essays include "Five Moral Pieces", "Kant and the Platypus", "Serendipities", "Travels in Hyperreality", and "On Literature". His theories extend the use of semiotics to fiction and combine various genres, literary theory, medieval studies, mystery, and biblical exegesis. "The Name of the Rose" has been translated into more than 16 languages and won two of Italy's main literary awards, the Premio Viareggio and the Premio Strega. Eco lives in Milan.
