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LitHouse podcast

The House of Literature in Oslo - Litteraturhuset

LitHouse is the English language podcast from the House of Literature (Litteraturhuset) in Oslo, presenting adapted versions of lectures and conversations featuring international writers and thinkers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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49:58

Traitor or war hero? Ian Buruma and Marte Michelet

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2023/10/01

A masseuse who rises in the ranks to become Himmler’s confidant. A cross-dressing princess who spies for Japanese secret police in China. A Dutch Jew who personally hands over his friends to the Nazis and the gas chambers.The Collaborators is the story of three most unusual lives, all of whom served the other side during World War II. But it is also the story of their legacies and the ways in which the writing of history can become the falsification of history: The Dutchman and the spy were both

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52:18

All Animals Are Not Equal. NoViolet Bulawayo and...

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2023/09/24

In the novel Glory, we find ourselves in the fictional country Jidada, which is peopled with all kinds of animals; bleating sheep, a confident pig preacher, vicious dogs making up the country’s security forces, and at the very top: the Old Horse, who has ruled the country with an iron hoof ever since independence. He is «the longest-serving leader in a continent of long-serving leaders, and indeed in the whole wide world».Author NoViolet Bulawayo has drawn inspiration both from George Orwell’s

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1:14:33

The Writer as Witness. Joyce Carol Oates and Karin...

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2023/09/02

Joyce Carol Oatesis one of the world’s greatest living writers, and is frequently cited as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. It is truly a momentous occasion that Oates will visit the House of Literature, and in doing so will be visiting Norway for the very first time.Through more than one hundred books spanning most genres, the American legend writes tenderly and with precision about our societies’ great questions.«The opposite of language is silence and silence for human beings is

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1:02:47

A Quiet Revolution. Abdulrazak Gurnah and Leila Aboulela

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2023/08/29

In 2021,Abdulrazak Gurnahwas awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, the first African-born writer to receive the award in close to 20 years. The Swedish Academy awarded Gurnah the prize «for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents».Across the world, more and more readers are discovering Gurnah’s body of work. His novelsParadise, AfterlivesandDesertionexplore the history of East Africa and

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54:15

What Should Art Be? Lecture by Joyce Carol Oates

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2023/08/26

Do artists have a social responsibility? Should art be «pure» and not related to ethical or political issues? What, exactly, is the role of art? These are questions that the American authorJoyce Carol Oateshas dealt with through a long writing life, both as an author and as a professor in creative writing at University of Princeton and UC Berkeley.Oates is a legend, and the author of more than 100 books. Known for memorable titles such asBlond,Them, Black Water, The Gravedigger’s Daughter,We Were

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34:01

My African Reading List: Masande Ntshanga

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2023/08/06

Masande Ntshanga is a writer and poet, an editor of New Contrast Magazine and a teacher of creative writing. For his debut novel The Reactive, he was awarded the Betty Trask Award, while his second novel, Triangulum, was nominated for the Nommo Prize for Best Speculative Fiction Novel written by an African. His latest book is the 2020 chapbook Native Life in the Third Millennium.This is Masande's reading list:Imraan Coovadia, Tales of the Metric SystemA Spy in TimeK. Sello Duiker, The Quiet Violence

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22:28

My African Reading List: Maaza Mengiste

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2023/07/23

Maaza Mengiste is a writer, photographer and teacher of creative fiction at Wesleyan University. Her 2010 debut novel, Beneath the Lion's Gaze, depicts the bloody revolution in 1970s Ethiopia, and was named one of the 10 Best Contemporary African Books by the Guardian. Her second novel The Shadow King, portraying the Italo-Ethiopian war of the 1930s, was shortlisted for the prestigious Booker prize in 2020.This is Maaza Mengiste’s reading list:Ama Ata Aidoo, Our Sister KilljoyMaya Binyam,

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1:00:51

Forwards Toward the Past. Masande Ntshanga and Julia...

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2023/07/09

The year is 2043, and an astronomer at the South-African Space Agency receives a package filled with documents, which contain a warning that the earth will end in 10 years.The documents are diary entries and audio tapes by a girl, relaying first her adolescence in the 1990s, when she explores her sexuality and tries to find her mother, who disappeared without a trace when she was little, and then moving to her daily life as an adult.Through the history of the girl, we see how South-Africa’s dark

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50:10

Brave New Worlds: Personal lecture by Masande Ntshanga

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2023/06/25

«I’ve always found Science Fiction to be a form that’s irrevocably linked to critiques of power and societal structures,» writer Masande Ntshanga has said. During his adolescence, he read a lot of science fiction, and his latest novel, Triangulum, makes use of several elements from the genre.Science fiction, speculative fiction and afrofuturism are literary genres on the rise on many countries, including Norway and Ntshanga’s home country, South Africa. What makes science fiction the preferred genre

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49:22

Did Hemingway Write Transgender Literature? Lecture...

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2023/06/11

What is transgender literature? Is it simply works by writers who identify as transgender? Or might it be thought of as a lens to read through, or a certain kind of attention? If it is the latter: in what tradition might we locate transgender literature?In this talk, American authorTorrey Peterswill argue for finding the roots of current transfeminine literature in older works that explore the performance of masculinity, works that in fact have been popularly accepted as containing little

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1:06:29

Beyond the binary. Torrey Peters and Carline Tromp....

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2023/06/04

Torrey Petersrocketed into the international literary scene with her debut novelDetransition, Baby, the first novel written by a trans woman to become an international best seller. Peters explores the complexeties of trans life, and compares transitioning to cis women starting over after a divorce: Everything you thought you knew about the future has to be scrapped, and you have to create a new identity that society doesn’t have any rules for.The novel portrays Reese, a trans woman who always wanted

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1:01:23

With Your Life in the Balance. Tsitsi Dangarembga,...

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2023/05/28

«Every time we say it can’t get any worse it does,» writer Tsitsi Dangarembga has said about the situation in her home country Zimbabwe.The UNs special envoy has reacted to the arbitrary arrests of activists and politicians from the opposition. Last year, Dangarembga was herself convicted after partaking in a peaceful protest with one other activist in 2020. While large parts of the middle class and cultural elite has left Zimbabwe, Dangarembga has staid put and fought for change. Now she debates

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54:43

Who Owns the Land and the Sea? Ella Marie Hætta...

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2023/05/28

Just weeks after the historical film Ellos Eatnu/Let the River Flow had premiered, lead actress and activist Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen was back in chains – for real, this time. Together with fellow Sami activists, she barricaded the Department of Oil and Energy, to protest that the authorities have done nothing in the 500 days since Norway’s Supreme Court ruled that the wind park in Fosen violates the human rights of Sami reindeer herders in the area.South African Nonhle Mbuthuma has also fought for

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1:05:12

The Superwoman Black Feminist. Tsitsi Dangarembga and...

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2023/05/21

Through more than 30 years, Zimbabwean Tsitsi Dangarembga has made her mark as a writer and director. With her trilogy of novels following Tambu, she portrays a period of upheaval for her home country, from life under the colonial regime of Rhodesia to the struggle for freedom and the disillusioned everyday life after independence.Her debut novel Nervous Conditions was not only the first novel in English published by a Black woman in Zimbabwe, it has become a modern classic, and in 2018, it figured

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56:00

My Brilliant Friend from Zimbabwe. About Tsitsi...

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2023/05/21

A young girl from a poor family fighting to get the education she wants, but which is primarily reserved for her brother. A beautiful and worldly friend who brings her out of her shell. The history of a region told through the childhood of a young girl.This could be the description of Elena Ferrante’s Naples Quartet, but in fact it describes the trilogy of Tsitsi Dangarembga, began several decades earlier.In this trilogy, we follow the young girl Tambudzai from her childhood in colonised Rhodesia,

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1:06:39

The Gospel of Lucy. Jamaica Kincaid and Ida Pallin...

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2023/04/02

Jamaica Kincaid is one of the greatest authors of feminist and postcolonial literature of our time. In her handful of novels and a collection of short stories, she has portrayed themes such as structural racism, otherness and mother-daughter relationships with soberness and astonishing clarity. She has emerged as a favourite among readers and critics alike, and is increasingly mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.In Lucy, a young woman travels from a Caribbean island to an

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45:41

When the World Collapses. Iryna Tsilyk and Åsne...

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2023/03/19

“How will you show the destroyed city?”The Trofymchuks live in a small city in Donbas’ “Red Zone”, Ukraine, which since Russia’s invasion in 2014 has seen frequent shellings and the breakdown of infratructure. They plan to make a film showing their new daily life, and at the dinner table discuss how best to capture the destruction, uncertainty and despair that the war has brought. Just as important is the question of how to show the joys, resilience and community in their neighbourhood and in the

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48:09

Red Lies. Lea Ypi and Marianne Marthinsen

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2023/03/12

As a little girl, Lea Ypi regarded Stalin and Albania’s leader Enver Hoxha as dependable father figures, she liked how her teacher Nora har simple answers to everything, and what she wanted most of all, was to be named a pioneer. But when the communist regime falls in 1991, the young Lea suddenly realizes that nothing is truly like she thought. Has her whole life been a lie?In her memoir Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, Ypi depicts an unusual childhood: Before she came of age, she had

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49:00

The Universal Man Caroline Criado Perez and Linn...

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2023/03/05

The world in which we live is by and large designed and built for “the ideal man”: The size of cell phones, seat belts in cars, the development of medication – there are countless examples. And most of this we take for granted, that is how used we are, both women and men, to men being the norm, the universal form.If something is to change in the world that is constantly overlooking women, we have to first be aware that this is happening, says writerCaroline Criado Perez. In her bookInvisible Women,

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Shattered Innocence. Bret Easton Ellis and Emma Clare...

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2023/02/19

It is a rare occation when the author of cult books such as American Psycho and The Rules of Attraction releases his first novel in 13 years. For readers of Bret Easton Ellis’s earlier books, The Shards has a familiar atmosphere, and he doesn’t shy away from explicit descriptions of sex or violence.We are in early 80s LA, and the main character, Bret Ellis, is 17 and a senior at the prestigious private school Buckley. A charming new student in class challenges Bret’s attempt to hide his attraction

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