Reading the Vikings. Eleanor Barraclough and Tore Skeie
The history of the Vikings is usually told from the top down, through powerful characters such as chiefs, commanders and royalty, with raids, looting and war at the centre of the narrative. But what a...
12 Jan 48min
My African Reading List: Arinze Ifeakandu
Arinze Ifeakandu is a literary shooting star from Nigeria, with a characteristic, lyrical prose, who has been advocated by authors such as Damon Galgut og Colm Tóibín. God’s Children Are Little Broken...
22 Dec 202516min
When Everything Is Political: Anton Jäger and Torbjørn Røe Isaksen
«Everything» has become political – what you eat, what you wear, where you work, what you dream of. Political engagement permeates society, and movements like Occupy Wall Street, the Yellow Vests, and...
8 Dec 202549min
My African Reading List: Koleka Putuma
South African Koleka Putuma is an author, a playwright, an editor, amentor, and she has become a cult figure in the activist poetry community. In a direct style that pulls no punches, she writes about...
1 Dec 202527min
The Dictator and The Nazi. Philippe Sands and Karin Haugen
After the second world war, many of the biggest war criminals from Nazi Germany flee to South America in the hope of avoiding penalty. One of them is the SS officer Walter Rauff, who settles in Chile,...
24 Nov 202549min
Becoming a writer: Arundhati Roy and Athena Farrokhzad
Due to issues during the recording, the sound quality is somewhat lower than normal.In the recent memoir of Indian star author and activist Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me, we are given the raw...
9 Nov 20251h 18min
Strategies for Survival: Ocean Vuong and Priya Bains
Poet and writer Ocean Vuong has in just a few years established himself as a leading literary voice of his generation. With his own life as a point of departure – born in Vietnam and grown up in a wor...
20 Okt 20251h 5min
My African Reading List: Soukaina Habiballah
Soukaina Habiballah is from Morocco, and the author of four award-winning poetry collections, a short story collection, a novel and a play, Nini Ya Momo. This is Soukaina Habiballah’s reading list:Ima...
13 Okt 202525min
