LitHouse podcast

In this episode, you can hear a conversation between the American writer Jennifer Egan and the Norwegian writer and psychologist Finn Skårderud, about Egan’s novel Manhattan Beach. The conversation t…

In this episode, you can hear a conversation between the English writer Rachel Cusk and the Norwegian author Linn Ullmann, talking about the first books of Cusk’s fiction trilogy Outline and Transit.…

Nigerian Chimamanda Adichie has long made her mark as a distinct political voice. Both in her novels and her small non-fiction books We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manife…

Twenty years after her success novel The God of Small Things, India’s Arundhati Roy is back with a new novel: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. But in between the two, Roy has been busy: through a nu…

Édouard Louis, Athena Farrokhzad and Kristina Leganger Iversen has all written literature challenging and expanding the way we think about identity, language and the body. Together with composer and …

Turkish writer Aslı Erdoğan published several novels, narratives and short stories before she became a more prominent political newspaper writer. In 2016 she was arrested and imprisoned for her attac…

In this episode, you can hear a conversation between the Indian writer Arundhati Roy and director of the National Library og Norway Aslak Sira Myhre. They met on stage shortly after Arundhati Roys ne…

In this episode, you can hear a conversation between the American writer Paul Auster and the Norwegian critic and former editor, Janneken Øverland. The conversation took place on August 22nd, 2017.

In this episode, you can hear a conversation between the American writer Chris Kraus and Culture Editor of Morgenbladet, Ane Farsethås. The conversation took place on August 20th, 2017.

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In this episode, you can hear a conversation between the Turkish writer and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, and professor of Cultural History at the University of Oslo, Helge Jordheim. Pamuk visited Oslo…

In this episode, you can hear a conversation between the American writer Jonathan Safran Foer and the Norwegian writer and journalist Bjørn Gabrielsen, that took place on August 16th, 2017. Everythin…

In this episode, you can hear a conversation between the American writers Siri Hustvedt and Chris Kraus, led by Anne-Hilde Neset, director of Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo.

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In this episode, you can hear the American writer Emma Cline talking with the Norwegian writer and editor Mattis Øybø. The conversation took place on April 26th, 2017.

Emma Clines acclaimed debut n…

In this episode,  the American writer Jenny Offill talks with the Norwegian literary critic Bernhard Ellefsen, in a conversation that took place on August 17th 2016. Introduction by the Norwegian wri…

In this episode, the Libyan writer Hisham Matar talks with Helge Jordheim, Professor of Cultural History at the University of Oslo. The conversation took place on august 24th 2016. Introduction by Si…

In this episode, the Argentinian writer César Aira talks with his Norwegian translator Kristina Solum, in a conversation that took place on September 14th 2016. Introduction by Gisle Selnes, professo…

In this episode you can hear Selahattin Demirtaş giving that Saladin Lecture 2016. The lecture was given on April 13th, as part of the International Saladin Days, and was held in Turkish. It was foll…

In this episode the French writer Édouard Louis talks about Toni Morrison, in a lecture that was given at the House of Literature in Oslo on september 23rd 2016.

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