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Lina Wolff | Podcast
Lina Wolff & Saskia Vogel
Lina Wolff on Dante, the artistic temperament and the tension she feels between a ‘Spanishness’ and ‘Swedishness’ when writing.
In Conversation: Tishani Doshi and Karthika Naïr
Tishani Doshi & Karthika Naïr
‘I have never felt it as a poet, and that is why I’m doubly grateful to dance, for having experienced the loneliness and the terror of the empty stage, but also, to have had that live connection.’
Karl Ove Knausgård | Interview
Karl Ove Knausgård & Sophia Efthimiatou
‘You are in the middle of your life and you think, how did I get here?’
Catherine Lacey | Interview
Catherine Lacey & Louise Scothern
‘It's uncomfortable, at times, to be alive, so I see no reason why a voice in fiction shouldn't be also.’
The Stone-Thrower from Eisenhuttenstadt
Max Thomas Mehr & Regine Sylvester
‘It has nothing to do with the question of the foreigners. No one in Eisenhuttenstadt wants the foreigners here.’
‘Useless Chaos is What Fiction is About’
Mavis Gallant & Jhumpa Lahiri
‘Useless chaos is what fiction is about.’
In Conversation: Pankaj Mishra and Aman Sethi
Pankaj Mishra & Aman Sethi
‘It is India’s turn to undergo social traumas that other countries have suffered in their pursuit of wealth and power.’
Julie Otsuka | Interview
Julie Otsuka & Patrick Ryan
‘Using the ‘we’ voice allowed me to tell a much larger story than I would have been able to tell otherwise.’
Tim Lott | Interview
Tim Lott & Helen Gordon
‘Somehow by putting things into words you’re taking a situation that feels very out of control and creating a kind of illusion of control over it.’
Mario Levrero | Best Untranslated Writers
Juan Pablo Villalobos
‘I knew he was a ‘strange’ writer, unclassifiable, with a boundless imagination, who was creating one of the most intriguing, thought-provoking bodies of work in the Spanish language.’
Peter Hobbs | Interview
Peter Hobbs & Roy Robins
‘Illness is solitary, because suffering is something you always do alone.’