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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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The Womanly Face of War. Maaza Mengiste and Sofi Oksanen

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2023/02/12

The young girl Hirut starts working for a wealthy couple, but is soon brought into their many quarrels, their jealousy and grief over the loss of a child. This is Ethiopia in the 1930s. Things go from bad to worse when Italy, led by Mussolini, invades the country, and Hirut’s master is tasked with organizing an opposition army. His wife refuses to wait at home for him, and creates her own force, made up by women. In the capital, emperor Selassie attempts to shut out the dire situation through the

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My African Reading List: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

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2023/01/19

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor is an author, screenwriter, and former head of the Zanzibar International Film Festival. In 2003, the Kenyan won the Caine Prize for African Writing, and her 2013 debut novel, Dust, won the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature. In 2015, Owuor visited the House of Literature, a visit that resulted in the Norwegian publication of Dust. The critically acclaimed The Dragonfly Sea followed in 2019. These authors are on Yvonnes reading list:Makena OnjericaOduor OkwiriDennis MugaaIdza

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My African Reading List: Nadifa Mohamed

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2022/12/29

Nadifa Mohamed is the writer of three novels, with the two first, Black Mamba and The Orchard of Lost Souls available in Norwegian translation so far. In 2017, Mohamed participated in The House of Literature’s festival on Somali literature, A nation of poets. During the pandemic, she interviewed Arundhati Roy and Édouard Louis for the House of Literature and Linn Ullmann’s podcast How to Proceed. In 2013, she appeared on Granta’s list of best young British writers. Mohamed’s latest novel, The

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1:00:21

Broken Promises. Damon Galgut and Nosizwe Lise Baqwa

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2022/12/25

Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-winning novelThe Promisefollows the white South-African Swart family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The story follows the nuclear family through the waning years of the apartheid state, through the 1994 liberation and until the children are grown, close to our time.Galgut’s story glides through the decades of South Africa’s recent history, weaving in and out between the various family members, often changing the perspective mid-sentence from one to another, or to the

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1:00:02

Bless Our Blue Bodies. Warsan Shire and Athena...

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2022/12/24

Warsan Shireis a critically acclaimed and award winning British poet. In 2016, the artist Beyoncé named her one of her favorite poets, and she appears both on the album «Lemonade» and in the film «Black Is King». In 2014, she was the first poet named Young Poet Laureate of London.Shire, born to Somali parents in Kenya and raised in Great Britain, has said that she draws on her own experiences as an immigrant, as well as those of her family and friends in what she writes. Shire has published two chap

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1:04:25

Who is Killing Us? Literature and the unveiling of power

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2022/12/22

Édouard Louis 2022: In a world dominated by state narratives and information wars, what is the role of the writer?Power imbalances, exploitation and the dark history of Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe are among the recurring themes in the works of Finnish-Estonian writer and playwrightSofi Oksanen. Her blend of surrealist elements and real-world political plotlines allow for a literary exploration of where political power has been focused historically and where it lies today.Édouard Louishas

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58:35

Friends of Dorothy: Gay Literature and Experience....

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2022/12/18

Édouard Louis 2022: Alan HollinghurstandÉdouard Louishave long read each other’s books with great interest. While Louis has written brutally honest depictions of growing up gay in a homophobic family and environment, Hollinghurst’s fiction explores gay culture and experience through the decades, including the AIDS crisis and gay life prior to decriminalization in the UK. While Norway marks 50 years since homosexuality was decriminalized this year, LGBT rights are being curbed around the world, and

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37:21

Watches that gain time: Edouard Louis and the...

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2022/12/14

Édouard Louis 2022: In his most recent book,Changer : méthode, Édouard Louis shows just how indebted he is, as a writer and thinker, to the works of the French academic and authorDidier Eribon. Ever since seeing him lecture early in his life, Louis and Eribon have developed a deep understanding of the other’s works and ideas, with Eribon’s novelRetour à Reimseven providing the foundation for Louis’ debut novelEn finir avec Eddy Bellegueule. In this talk, Eribon gives us his view on Louis’ authorship

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45:45

Writing the Unheard-of: «The History of Violence» and...

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2022/12/12

Édouard Louis 2022: A lecture by Maaza Mengiste, introduction by Édouard Louis. What is the responsibility of the writer in documenting and unpicking the violence around us? In Édouard Louis’s bookThe History of Violence, he explores violence from the point of view of the victim of rape and attempted murder, but also the violence that the perpetrator has experienced from society. In the novelsBeneath the Lion’s GazeandThe Shadow King, about the bloody Ethiopian revolution and Italy’s invasion of

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30:39

The Great Escape? Class, Culture and Friendship in...

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2022/12/07

Édouard Louis 2022: A young gay person escapes their small town in search of friendship and love in the big city. A recurring theme as much in real life as in literature.In his most recent book,Change: Method, Édouard Louis delves deeper into his own journey – as told inThe End of Eddy– from his poor upbringing and to the cultural elite in Paris, and the deliberate steps he took along the way to reinvent himself.In writing the book, Louis was deeply inspired byAlan Hollinghurst’s award winning

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43:52

A Manifesto for the Working Class. Lecture by Édouard...

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2022/12/03

Édouard Louis 2022: This lecture was held on November 18th at The House of Literature in Norway, during their three days of conversations, lectures, and events fromÉdouard Louis’writing and works.The lecture was written for this occasion and centres around Louis’ recent experience of losing his older brother.Few writers have championed the working class like Édouard Louis. In each of his five novels, he portrays the struggles and aspirations of an often undermined and ignored group, exemplified by a

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53:49

Claire-Louise Bennett on Checkout 19

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2022/11/14

In Checkout 19 Claire-Louise Bennett writes about the joy of reading, about when fiction becomes so vividly alive that you take it with you into the real world. Through a series of chapters - told in I-, she- and even we-form - we follow the main character's development from a little girl to an adult woman, through childhood, promiscuity and bad boyfriends. At the same time, there is a development from reader to author, but not without a series of derailments and tortuous detours: A meeting with a

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57:46

Behind bars in Moscow. Kira Yarmysh and Jette F....

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2022/04/08

What is life like for young and regime-critical Russians today?Kira Yarmyshis best known in Russia as a spokeswoman for the Russian oppositional politician Alexei Navalny. Now her debut novelIncredible Incidents in Women's Cell No. 3is making headlines. In Russia, the book was quickly branded as "gay propaganda" by Russian authorities, due to depictions of same-sex love. Throughout the book, Yarmysh depicts a modern and contrast-filled Russia. Like her main character, Yarmysh is no stranger to the

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Free thought, a free country. Lecture by Andrey Kurkov

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2022/04/07

“Ukrainians have never accepted censorship. They have always wanted to say and write what they think. That is why almost all Ukrainian writers and poets in the 1920s and 1930s were shot by Soviet authorities… If Russia succeeds, we will have a new generation of executed writers and politicians, philosophers and philologists." How should one fight for freedom of speech and facts in a war of propaganda? What can literature and art contribute in dark times? And when does the situation require the

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Deborah Levy on her "living" autobiographies

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2022/01/15

Does a house equal a home? This is one question Deborah Levy explores in her recent bookReal Estate, the third and final instalment in her series of "living autobiographies", autobiographies written in the storms of life, and not in quiet contemplation towards the end of it. The need for a place of one's own - whether it be a physical place or a place in one's writing – is a recurring theme in all three volumes.Things I don't want to know(translated into Norwegian by Anne Cathrine Wollebæk) depicts

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51:27

John Freeman on Philip Roth’s America

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2020/05/22

The new HBO mini series The Plot Against America is based on the Philip Roth novel (2004) by the same name. The novel tells the counterfactual story of Charles Lindberg’s presidency, based on the real man and what might happen if he, with his fascist sympathies, was elected president of the United States around 1940.The US has become increasingly racist and polarized during Donald Trump’s presidency. What is the current situation, and how does it compare to the works of Philip Roth? In this podcast,

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1:24:06

Njabulo Ndebele, Koleka Putuma and Elise Dybvig about...

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2020/03/20

Njabulo Ndebele grew up during the apartheid, and is one of South Africa's leading writers and intellectuals. He is the former vice principal at the University of Cape Town, and the author of the groundbreaking book The Cry of Winnie Mandela, in which he blends essay and novel, fact and fiction in an exploration of women’s position in the freedom struggle. Koleka Putuma was born in 1993, and belongs to the generation in South Africa known as «Born Free». She is behind one of the most critically

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1:05:27

Michael Pollan and Andreas Liebe Delsett

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2020/03/13

Through titles such as Cooked, The Omnivore’s dilemma and In defense of Food, Michael Pollan, Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley’ and of the Practice of Non-Fiction at Harvard University, has distinguished himself as one of the world’s foremost feature writers and authors of non-fiction. His latest book How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence is now out in its Norwegian translation, Psykedelisk

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1:24:37

Gloria Gervitz in conversation with Athena Farrokhzad

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2020/02/24

Mexican poet Gloria Gervitz has been writing the same poem for over forty years. The epic poem Migrations (Migraciones) is one of the greatest poetic projects of our time – a poem in constant movement through family, religion, death and sexuality, but also through perpetual newly published versions. It is based on the history of Gervitz’s own Jewish family that fled persecution in Eastern Europe in the early 1900s. In this episode you can hear the legendary poet in conversation with the Swedish poet

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1:24:22

Lecture and conversation with Nesrine Malik

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2020/01/31

Is the assertion that freedom of expression is under pressure just a myth used to cover up more important political incompatibilities? In this event with the british-Sudanese author and Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik, held at the House of Literature 22.january 2020, Malik opened Litteraturhuset’s Commission on the Freedom of Expression. In her lecture, she talked about freedom of expression. How has the climate for free speech changed over the last twenty years? What kinds of challenges does it

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