LitHouse Podcast
1) 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
2) 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
3) L'émigrante de classe: Annie Ernaux et Kjerstin Aukrust
En octobre 2022, Annie Ernaux a reçu le prix Nobel de littérature, en tant que première femme française, « pour le courage et l'acuité clinique avec lesquels elle découvre les racines, les étrangetés ...Show More
4) The Break with the West: Omar El Akkad and Yohan Shanmugaratnam
«The moral component of history, the most necessary component, is simply a single questions, asked over and over again: When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?» One Day, Eve...Show More
5) The Storyteller of Sisterhood: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jessika Gedin
When Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie publishes her first novel in 12 years, it is a real event. With award winning and critically acclaimed titles such as Americanah, Half of a Yello...Show More
6) My African Reading List: Wole Talabi
Wole Talabi is a Nigerian science fiction author. He is best known for his short stories, most of them collected in the collections Incomplete Solutions and Convergence Problems. His latest novel Shig...Show More
7) The many lives of Amna: Youssef Rakha and Teresa Pepe
Youssef Rakha is an award-winning author of both novels and poetry, as well as a journalist and a photographer. I 2009, he was selected by the Hay Festival as one of the best Arabic writers under...Show More
8) Monsters and Dystopias: New Arabic Literature
What characterizes the new Arabic literature? Writers involved in the Arab Spring are now imprisoned, exiled or living with the political repression, wars and disillusionment that has marked the regio...Show More
9) Liberation and Revolution: Slimani, Rakha and Habiballah
The Arab Spring is when Egyptian Youssef Rakha first starts writing novels. Moroccan Soukaina Habiballah publishes her first poetry collection shortly after, while French Moroccan Leïla Slimani works ...Show More
10) Diary of a Thief: Abdulrazak Gurnah og Nadifa Mohamed
Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2021, as the first African-born writer in almost 20 years, for having, in the jury’s reasong, «highlighted the impact of colonialism...Show More