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

Latest episodes

Douglas Stuart on 'Shuggie Bain'

September 1, 2021 · 1 hr 2 min

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…
Jonathan Safran Foer: Novels Can Learn from Poetry

June 11, 2021 · 12 min

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…
Margaret Atwood: On a Planet of Speculative Fiction

June 3, 2021 · 55 min

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 Atwood…
Mario Vargas Llosa: Literature Makes Citizens Critical

May 21, 2021 · 21 min

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…
Han Kang: The Horror of Humanity

May 12, 2021 · 29 min

“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…
Eileen Myles: A Poem Says 'I Want'

May 3, 2021 · 27 min

“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…
Paul Auster: How I Became a Writer

April 25, 2021 · 19 min

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 in…
Chris Kraus: Changing Lives

April 16, 2021 · 47 min

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…