Kristen Roupenian and Eline Lund Fjæren on Cats and Women
The American writer Kristen Roupenian caused a sensation when her debut short story «Cat Person» was published in The New Yorker in 2017. With #Metoo at its peak, the story’s treatment of bad sex made...
3 Touko 20191h 4min
Leïla Slimani and Maria Horvei about Lullaby
In French Moroccan Leïla Slimani’s books, the psychological development of the characters is what captures the reader. Lullaby explores the interactions of a small upper middle-class family. What powe...
5 Huhti 20191h 1min
Ingmar Bergman the author
This year marks 101 years since the birth of one of the world’s most influential artists: Ingmar Bergman. The anniversary last year brought renewed focus to his films, but what about his writing? Duri...
22 Helmi 201945min
Voices from Syria: Wendy Pearlman and Andreas Delsett about the revolution and the war
How are the Syrian refugees working today to understand and to process what happened before and during the war? What are their thoughts on the current situation? In her book We Crossed a Bridge and It...
19 Loka 20181h 3min
Jenny Erpenbeck and Kaja Schjerven Mollerin on The end of days
In German Jenny Erpenbeck’s most recent novel, The End of Days, her main character dies a total of five times; first as a baby, then as a young girl in a Europe between two world wars, then as a revol...
12 Loka 20181h 5min
Eduardo Halfon and Mattis Øybø in conversation
Guatemalan writer Eduardo Halfon is a central voice in the new wave of literature from Central America and the Caribbean. The episodic and absurd novel The Polish Boxer moves between the university ca...
28 Syys 201855min
Valeria Luiselli and Maria Horvei about Faces in the crowd
Valeria Luiselli, translated into more than twenty languages, is a central name in Mexican contemporary literature. Her debut novel, Faces in the crowd, has made critics compare Luiselli to writers su...
21 Syys 20181h
Valeria Luiselli, Teju Cole and Nadifa Mohamed
In her essay Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions, the Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli explores the fates of Latin American child migrants in and on their way to the US. Luiselli herself live...
14 Syys 20181h 2min
