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
Episodes
25 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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29:00
Eileen Myles: A Poem Says 'I Want'
“I think a poem really is a statement of desire.” Meet the legendary American poet, writer – and homosexual icon – Eileen Myles. In this interview, Myles discusses the innate power of poetry and how to address the absence of the female genitali...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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26:46
Paul Auster: How I Became a Writer
Paul Auster shares the story of how he became a writer and how he works: “A good day’s work is if I have one typed page at the end of the day, two pages is great, three is a miracle.”Paul Auster was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg ...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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19:09
Chris Kraus: Changing Lives
Experience American writer Chris Kraus, author of the iconic feminist novel ‘I Love Dick’, in this passionate talk about the apolitical art scene and the challenges of being a woman in our contemporary consumer-focused world.Chris Kraus was...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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46:53
Patti Smith: I Will Always Live Like Peter Pan
70-minute in-depth interview with rock singer and poet Patti Smith, who speaks about her National Book Award winning memoir 'Just Kids' and her life with literature, beginning when she was a child : “I thought we didn’t have to grow up. I was h...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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1:11:09
Jennifer Egan: Writing Out the American Psyche
In this extensive interview, American Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan takes us through her career as a writer and explains why she considers fiction an invaluable document of our time: “By creating a kind of artefact of the dream-life of ou...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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51:04
Colum McCann: What Ulysses Did to Me
”The blood that moves through me right now is my great grandfather's blood, but the reason I know him, is because I read Ulysses” says Irish writer Colum McCann in this interview about James Joyce’s modernist novel.Colum McCann was inte...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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9:40
Umberto Eco: I Was Always Narrating
Interview with the late Italian novelist Umberto Eco, author behind the bestselling novel ‘The Name of the Rose’. With great warmth and humour Eco shares how he has always taken pleasure in telling stories, and how he came to write his first no...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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21:47
Matias Faldbakken: An Element of Vandalism
“My writing became ventilation for my frustrations on the art scene.” Meet Norwegian visual artist and writer Matias Faldbakken, who has been described as “one of Scandinavia’s most important and most provoking authors.” In this video, Faldbakk...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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14:42
CAConrad: Rituals for Poetry
The award-winning American poet CAConrad here shares the moving story of how, following the brutal murder of his boyfriend and the subsequent indifference of the police, writing poetry conceived from rituals became healing: “I believed that I c...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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34:07
Arundhati Roy: The Characters Visited Me
“It is important to be able to write about violence with the same intimacy with which I write about love.” Enjoy this cordial interview with Indian Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy, who discusses writing about modern India and its many...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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42:58
Anne Carson: Lecture on the History of Skywriting
Enjoy this spellbinding performance by Anne Carson, heralded as one of the most important contemporary poets in the English-speaking world. Together with her collaborator, Robert Currie, Carson performs a staged reading of a text that tells cre...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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43:07
Erica Jong: Sexuality and Creativity
“The urge to create and the urge to copulate are very close.” In this interview the iconic feminist writer Erica Jong speaks candidly of being fuelled creatively by desire, her experiences as a female writer and what she has come to realize abo...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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23:58
Isabella Hammad: Nostalgia Has a Real Force
British-Palestinian writer Isabella Hammad has been widely praised for her first novel ‘The Parisian’ (2018). In this video, she talks about Palestine in the fading days of the Ottoman Empire, about nostalgia for the past, and how the novel all...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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9:50
Colson Whithead: I Have to Know the Destination
“I became a writer once I realised no one liked my stuff.” Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey’s favourite author, Pulitzer Prize-winning Colson Whitehead, on how rejections of his first stab at a novel made him realize that he wanted to pursu...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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7:33
Alaa Al-Aswany: All the Arab Regimes Have Expired
“Religion should be a personal, private issue. The state should not have any religion. This is the only way to achieve democracy.” Watch the world-renowned Egyptian novelist Alaa al-Aswany speak straightforwardly about contemporary Egypt and wh...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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30:37
Ariana Reines: The Impulse of Poetry
Meet American poet Ariana Reines, who has been described as one of the crucial voices of her generation. In this video, she talks openly about how extreme familial circumstances “pushed” her into poetry, and how writing lets you enter the deepe...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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37:38
Taiye Selasi & Colum McCann: We are all Multi-Local
Meet the distinguished writers Taiye Selasi and Colum McCann in this inspiring talk about finding a way to be yourself, a “citizen of elsewhere”, with more than one home and an international identity based on many local experiences.Taiy...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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40:31
Claudia Rankine: Black on White
“Anti-black racism is at the core. It is part of what makes America, America,” says the award-winning American poet and writer Claudia Rankine. In this powerful interview, she speaks openly about contemporary America – about Trump, whiteness as...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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38:06
Sally Rooney: Writing with Marxism
“The best I can do is to try and observe how class, as a very broad social structure, impacts our personal and intimate lives.”To what extent can a writer accommodate an economic and social philosophy to a novel? The Irish literary sens...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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