A travelling, curious and irregular podcast, interviewing some of the bravest and most influential writers of our times. <br /><br />Supported by the #danishartsfoundation
In search of an Author
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A travelling, curious and irregular podcast, interviewing some of the bravest and most influential writers of our times. <br /><br />Supported by the #danishartsfoundation
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November 10, 2023
Chi Ta-Wei: On books that keeps teaching us new things
In his most famous book “The Membranes”, the Taiwanese writer and scholar Chi Ta-wei imagines a future where humans live underwater, gender is more fluid, and mega-companies use artificial intelligence to fight wars.<br /><br />Published in 1995 almost 30 years has passed. The world has changed since then. His own life has changed. In this interview he express the wish to write a sequel to “The Membranes” that could capture how the world has changed in the meantime, and simultaneously answer the questions his book still leaves him with today.<br /><br />Join us, when we talk about being distanced from mainstream society, how the pandemic changed his view on writing career, on gay rights in the 90’s Taiwan, the science fiction genre, learning new lessions about his own books, about loneliness, manga and the courage to write.
September 25, 2023
Mariana Enriquez: On writing our deepest fears
Will our past come back to haunt us? Do we all share the same age-old collective traumas, and how can literature, and especially the horror-genre, help us process them?<br /><br />These are some of the questions I ask the guest of todays episode — Mariana Enriquez. From Buenos Aires, Argentina, she is a worldknown novelist, short story writer and journalist. She published her first work already when she was only 21 years old, and has since then won several important literary awards, amongst others the prestigious spanish Herralde Prize. In the non-spanish speaking world she is mostly know for her two collection of short stories, namely “The dangers of smoking in bed” and “The things we lost in the fire”, besides most recent novel, “Our share of night”.<br /><br />Her stories consists of a unique and uncanny mix of violence, social injustice, ghosts, feminism, additions, sex, local myths and world history. And whether they portray a supernatural or realistic univers, they are all equally unsettling to read, mostly because she insists at staring directly at the horror, the evil.<br /><br />In this talk I ask her about how she gained her literary voice, why she choose horror as her preferred genre; how the former dictatorship in Argentina influenced both her childhood and her writing; why desire is fundamentally toxic; about writing sex, psycho-geography and transgenerational trauma.
August 31, 2023
Claudia Durastanti: On the fictitiousness of the stories we tell ourselves
For the Brooklyn-born Italian writer, Claudia Durastanti, identity never seems fixed. We might repeat to ourselves the story of who we are, how we came to be us, and how we fit into this world, but ultimately it remains fiction.<br /><br />Her most recent book from 2019, <i>La Straniera </i>(Strangers I Know), opens with two versions of how her parents meet each other: While her mother claimed she saved her father from jumping into Tiber River in Rome, her father insists it happened when he saved her from an attempted robbery at the train station.<br /><br />From this point of departure the book takes on many shapes, themes, stories and formats: Talking with her before her participation in Louisiana Literature, Durastanti speak about why her deaf parents don't like fiction; on the “failed” chapters that were not included in the book; why autobiographies are not always to be trusted; of geography as destiny and translation as the story of poetic mistakes — All in all a wild and beautiful meditation on storytelling, irony, mythologies, family history, language and identity.
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