LitHouse Podcast
1) A Women's History. Annabelle Hirsch and Susanne Kaluza
In A History of Women in 101 Objects, author Annabelle Hirsch shows us how the things around us aren’t just objects, but testimonies to a common cultural history and set of values. Hirsch shows how so...Show More
2) A Secret Family History: Lea Ypi
Albanian Lea Ypi has a talent for combining the personal and the political in history, exploring how we are all shaped by the societies and ideologies surrounding us. In her memoir Free. A Child and a...Show More
3) 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...Show More
4) 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...Show More
5) 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...Show More
6) 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...Show More
7) 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,...Show More
8) 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 giv...Show More
9) 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 u...Show More
10) Transformation and liberation: Édouard Louis and Erlend Loe
With his seventh novel, Collapse, Édouard Louis has now completed his celebrated family saga about his own upbringing and family.Louis writes ruthlessly and skillfully about subjects su...Show More