Louisiana Literature
Welcome to Louisiana Literature, a podcast produced by Louisiana Channel. Each week we offer you an interview with a great writer in English. All episodes are recorded in connection with Louisiana Literature, the annual festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. Learn more about the festival through this link: https://louisiana.dk/en/whats-on/louisiana-literature/ Find more than 300 video interviews with writers at http://channel.louisiana.dk
Podcasting since 2020 • 25 episodes
Louisiana Literature
Latest Episodes
Douglas Stuart on 'Shuggie Bain'
More than 40 publishers rejected the debut novel 'Shuggie Bain' by Scottish Douglas Stuart before it won the Booker prize in 2020. The jury behind the prize called it "destined to become a classic". In this intimate interview Douglas Stua...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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1:01:46
Jonathan Safran Foer: Novels Can Learn from Poetry
Meet American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, who reflects on the power of literature in general and poetry in particular. Foer argues that art always has a personal point of departure, where the artist confronts the world and rearranges it. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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12:16
Margaret Atwood: On a Planet of Speculative Fiction
Experience award-winning Canadian writer Margaret Atwood in this humorous and vivid conversation about her works of elaborate ‘speculative fiction’, and how reality and science fiction are in fact inextricably intertwined.Margaret Atwoo...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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55:06
Mario Vargas Llosa: Literature Makes Citizens Critical
Meet Peruvian Nobel Prize-winner Mario Vargas Llosa (b.1936), who talks about his literary beginnings and about the inherent power good literature has to make readers aware of another reality: “What we call civilisation is a process that starte...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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21:24
Han Kang: The Horror of Humanity
“I always move on with the strength of my writing.” In this powerful portrait, South Korean writer Han Kang – winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize – reveals the story of how she became an author, and how writing helps her pierce he...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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