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More than 40 publishers rejected the debut novel 'Shuggie Bain' by Scottish Douglas Stuart before it won the Booker prize in 2020. The jury behind the prize called it "destined to become a classic". In this intimate interview  Douglas Stuart tells the story behind the extraordinary novel  of a...
Published 09/01/21
Meet American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, who reflects on the power of literature in general and poetry in particular. Foer also argues that art always has a personal point of departure, where the artist confronts the world and rearranges it.  Jonathan Safran Foer was interviewed by Synne...
Published 06/11/21
Experience award-winning Canadian writer Margaret Atwood in this humorous and vivid conversation about her works of elaborate ‘speculative fiction’, and how reality and science fiction are in fact inextricably intertwined. Margaret Atwood was interviewed by Synne Rifbjerg at the Louisiana...
Published 06/03/21