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 Feb 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 Okt 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 Okt 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 20181h 2min
A.S. Byatt and Toril Moi about The Children’s Book
A. S. Byatt was named one of Britain’s fifty greatest writers by The Times in 2008. Her literary breakthrough, Possession: A Romance, was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize. Byatt visited the House ...
22 Jun 201859min
Daniel Mendelsohn and Bernhard Ellefsen about An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
Daniel Mendelsohn is a Classics professor, and teaches his students the classic epic The Odyssey. One Spring, his 81 year old father decides to take his class. But what kind of a hero was Oddyseus, re...
1 Jun 201856min
