LitHouse podcast

By The House of Literature in Oslo - Litteraturhuset

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LitHouse is the English language podcast from the House of Literature (Litteraturhuset) in Oslo, presenting adapted versions of lectures and conversations featuring international writers and thinkers.

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Episode Date
Dilemmas of Diplomacy. Geert Mak and Espen Barth Eide
Aug 10, 2026
Andrey Kurkov: Ukraine — Memories for the future
May 15, 2026
Feminism in Ukrainian: Oksana Zabuzhko and Lotta Elstad
May 04, 2026
The Tsar Dynasty and the Mad Monk: Anthony Beevor and Erika Fatland
Apr 27, 2026
A Country Falling Apart: Siri Hustvedt and Karin Haugen
Apr 13, 2026
A Love Story: Siri Hustvedt and Marte Spurkland
Apr 13, 2026
A Women's History. Annabelle Hirsch and Susanne Kaluza
Mar 02, 2026
A Secret Family History: Lea Ypi
Feb 23, 2026
Reading the Vikings. Eleanor Barraclough and Tore Skeie
Jan 12, 2026
My African Reading List: Arinze Ifeakandu
Dec 22, 2025
When Everything Is Political: Anton Jäger and Torbjørn Røe Isaksen
Dec 08, 2025
My African Reading List: Koleka Putuma
Dec 01, 2025
The Dictator and The Nazi. Philippe Sands and Karin Haugen
Nov 24, 2025
Becoming a writer: Arundhati Roy and Athena Farrokhzad
Nov 09, 2025
Strategies for Survival: Ocean Vuong and Priya Bains
Oct 20, 2025
My African Reading List: Soukaina Habiballah
Oct 13, 2025
Transformation and liberation: Édouard Louis and Erlend Loe
Oct 06, 2025
L'émigrante de classe: Annie Ernaux et Kjerstin Aukrust
Sep 29, 2025
The Break with the West: Omar El Akkad and Yohan Shanmugaratnam
Sep 22, 2025
The Storyteller of Sisterhood: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jessika Gedin
Sep 01, 2025
My African Reading List: Wole Talabi
Aug 25, 2025
The many lives of Amna: Youssef Rakha and Teresa Pepe
Aug 11, 2025
Monsters and Dystopias: New Arabic Literature
Jun 30, 2025
Liberation and Revolution: Slimani, Rakha and Habiballah
Jun 16, 2025
Diary of a Thief: Abdulrazak Gurnah og Nadifa Mohamed
Jun 09, 2025
Pride and Prejudice: Leïla Slimani and Kjerstin Aukrust
Jun 02, 2025
European epics: Jenny Erpenbeck and Mattis Øybø
Apr 14, 2025
The Empire Strikes Back: GauZ’ and Yohan Shanmugaratnam
Mar 24, 2025
The Winding River of Time. Elif Shafak and Marte Spurkland
Mar 10, 2025
My African Reding List: Jennifer Makumbi
Mar 03, 2025
The History of Panafricanism. Lecture by Hakim Adi
Feb 17, 2025
Abuse and survival: Neige Sinno and Hadia Tajik
Feb 10, 2025
A Brief History of African Dreaming. Lecture by Wole Talabi
Feb 05, 2025
A Network of Autocrats: Anne Applebaum
Jan 06, 2025
A lasting curse: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Bhakti Shringarpure
Dec 15, 2024
Hamlet on the West Bank: Isabella Hammad and Priya Bains
Dec 08, 2024
The Turbulence of History: Margaret Atwood and Jenny Erpenbeck
Nov 24, 2024
The Literary Prophet: Margaret Atwood
Nov 15, 2024
Afrotopia: The Future of Africa with Felwine Sarr and Andreas Liebe Delsett
Oct 20, 2024
On Display: Rachel Cusk and Jessika Gedin
Sep 22, 2024
The Unfree: Persecuted authors and censorship
Aug 11, 2024
My African Reading List: Igoni Barrett
Aug 04, 2024
A Tangled Family History: Simon Sebag Montefiore and Shazia Majid
Jul 28, 2024
Fighting mad to tell their story: Jean Rhys and Jamaica Kincaid writing in the aftermath of Jane Eyre
Jul 21, 2024
My African Reading List: Leila Aboulela
Jul 14, 2024
Lucy's Many Lives: Elizabeth Strout and Kjersti Skomsvold
Jul 07, 2024
Just Keep Going. Personal lecture by Elizabeth Strout
Jul 07, 2024
Gender, Class and Loss: Glenn Bech, Andrew McMillan and Kristofer Folkhammar
Jun 09, 2024
History In the Footnotes: Leila Aboulela, Maaza Mengiste and Bhakti Shringarpure
May 12, 2024
Hidden in the Details: Adania Shibli and Maaza Mengiste
Mar 31, 2024
Censorship in East and West. Ian Buruma and Helge Jordheim
Jan 07, 2024
An Ode to Boyhood and Rage. Max Porter and Mattis Øybø
Nov 12, 2023
A Chorus of Voices from Vietnam. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai and Yukiko Duke
Oct 22, 2023
A Love without Bounds. Aleksandar Hemon and John Freeman
Oct 08, 2023
Traitor or war hero? Ian Buruma and Marte Michelet
Oct 01, 2023
All Animals Are Not Equal. NoViolet Bulawayo and Priya Bains
Sep 24, 2023
The Writer as Witness. Joyce Carol Oates and Karin Haugen
Sep 02, 2023
A Quiet Revolution. Abdulrazak Gurnah and Leila Aboulela
Aug 29, 2023
What Should Art Be? Lecture by Joyce Carol Oates
Aug 26, 2023
My African Reading List: Masande Ntshanga
Aug 06, 2023
My African Reading List: Maaza Mengiste
Jul 23, 2023
Forwards Toward the Past. Masande Ntshanga and Julia Wiedlocha
Jul 09, 2023
Brave New Worlds: Personal lecture by Masande Ntshanga
Jun 25, 2023
Did Hemingway Write Transgender Literature? Lecture by Torrey Peters
Jun 11, 2023
Beyond the binary. Torrey Peters and Carline Tromp. Introduction by Christine Jentoft
Jun 04, 2023
With Your Life in the Balance. Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nonhle Mbuthuma and Bergdis Joelsdottir
May 28, 2023
Who Owns the Land and the Sea? Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, Nonhle Mbuthuma and Silje Ask Lundberg
May 28, 2023
The Superwoman Black Feminist. Tsitsi Dangarembga and Maaza Mengiste
May 21, 2023
My Brilliant Friend from Zimbabwe. About Tsitsi Dangarembga's trilogy
May 21, 2023
The Gospel of Lucy. Jamaica Kincaid and Ida Pallin Bostadløkken
Apr 02, 2023
When the World Collapses. Iryna Tsilyk and Åsne Seierstad
Mar 19, 2023
Red Lies. Lea Ypi and Marianne Marthinsen
Mar 12, 2023
The Universal Man Caroline Criado Perez and Linn Stalsberg
Mar 05, 2023
Shattered Innocence. Bret Easton Ellis and Emma Clare Gabrielsen
Feb 19, 2023
The Womanly Face of War. Maaza Mengiste and Sofi Oksanen
Feb 12, 2023
My African Reading List: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Jan 19, 2023
My African Reading List: Nadifa Mohamed
Dec 29, 2022
Broken Promises. Damon Galgut and Nosizwe Lise Baqwa
Dec 25, 2022
Bless Our Blue Bodies. Warsan Shire and Athena Farrokhzad
Dec 24, 2022
Who is Killing Us? Literature and the unveiling of power
Dec 22, 2022
Friends of Dorothy: Gay Literature and Experience. Édouard Louis and Alan Hollinghurst in conversation
Dec 18, 2022
Watches that gain time: Edouard Louis and the politics of literature bookmark Lecture by Didier Eribon
Dec 14, 2022
Writing the Unheard-of: «The History of Violence» and the writer’s place in a violent world. Lecture by Maaza Mengiste
Dec 12, 2022
The Great Escape? Class, Culture and Friendship in «Change: Method». Lecture by Alan Hollinghurst
Dec 07, 2022
A Manifesto for the Working Class. Lecture by Édouard Louis
Dec 03, 2022
Claire-Louise Bennett on Checkout 19
Nov 14, 2022
Behind bars in Moscow. Kira Yarmysh and Jette F. Christensen
Apr 08, 2022
Free thought, a free country. Lecture by Andrey Kurkov
Apr 07, 2022
Deborah Levy on her "living" autobiographies
Jan 15, 2022
John Freeman on Philip Roth’s America
May 22, 2020
Njabulo Ndebele, Koleka Putuma and Elise Dybvig about South Afrika
Mar 20, 2020
Michael Pollan and Andreas Liebe Delsett
Mar 13, 2020
Gloria Gervitz in conversation with Athena Farrokhzad
Feb 24, 2020
Lecture and conversation with Nesrine Malik
Jan 31, 2020
Rachel Kushner and Finn Skårderud
Oct 11, 2019
Bad feminist: Roxane Gay and Eline Lund Fjæren
Sep 27, 2019
Igoni Barrett and Ane Farsethås on Blackass
Sep 06, 2019
Chris Kraus on Mary McCarthy
Aug 23, 2019
Siri Hustvedt and Linn Ullmann about Memories of the Future
Jun 21, 2019
Ibrahim Olabi about sexual violence in Syria
Jun 14, 2019
Édouard Louis and Geoffroy de Lagasnerie about bodies, violence and power
Jun 07, 2019
Sara Ahmed on complaint and abuses of power
May 31, 2019
Istanbul seen from below: Burhan Sönmez and Janneken Øverland
May 16, 2019
Kristen Roupenian and Eline Lund Fjæren on Cats and Women
May 03, 2019
Leïla Slimani and Maria Horvei about Lullaby
Apr 05, 2019
Ingmar Bergman the author
Feb 22, 2019
Voices from Syria: Wendy Pearlman and Andreas Delsett about the revolution and the war
Oct 19, 2018
Jenny Erpenbeck and Kaja Schjerven Mollerin on The end of days
Oct 12, 2018
Eduardo Halfon and Mattis Øybø in conversation
Sep 28, 2018
Valeria Luiselli and Maria Horvei about Faces in the crowd
Sep 21, 2018
Valeria Luiselli, Teju Cole and Nadifa Mohamed
Sep 14, 2018
A.S. Byatt and Toril Moi about The Children’s Book
Jun 22, 2018
Daniel Mendelsohn and Bernhard Ellefsen about An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
Jun 01, 2018
Ariel Levy and Bernhard Ellefsen on The Rules Do Not Apply
May 11, 2018
Paul Beatty and Dan Andersen on The Sellout
May 04, 2018
Ali Smith and Linn Ullmann about Autumn
Apr 27, 2018
Peter Frankopan on the Crusades as seen from Asia
Mar 16, 2018
Colson Whitehead and Karin Haugen on The Underground Railroad
Mar 09, 2018
Martin Puchner and Helge Jordheim about the literature shaping the world
Mar 02, 2018
Jennifer Egan and Finn Skårderud about Manhattan Beach
Feb 16, 2018
Rachel Cusk and Linn Ullmann about Outline and Transit
Feb 02, 2018
Chimamanda Adichie and Ane Farsethås about feminist tools
Dec 21, 2017
Arundhati Roy about her political and literary project
Dec 21, 2017
The Political Body
Dec 21, 2017
Aslı Erdoğan and Mustafa Can on today’s Turkey
Nov 24, 2017
Chris Kraus and Ane Farsethås
Oct 06, 2017
Arundhati Roy and Aslak Sira Myhre
Oct 06, 2017
Orhan Pamuk and Helge Jordheim
Oct 06, 2017
Paul Auster and Janneken Øverland
Oct 06, 2017
Jonathan Safran Foer and Bjørn Gabrielsen
Sep 08, 2017
Siri Hustvedt and Chris Kraus
Sep 01, 2017
Emma Cline and Mattis Øybø
May 12, 2017
After the Gaza war
Apr 07, 2017
Simon S. Montefiore and Erika Fatland
Mar 24, 2017
Jenny Offill and Bernhard Ellefsen
Feb 11, 2017
Hisham Matar and Helge Jordheim
Dec 02, 2016
César Aira and Kristina Solum
Nov 25, 2016
Selahattin Demirtaş giving the Saladin Lecture 2016
Nov 09, 2016
Édouard Louis on Toni Morrison
Oct 27, 2016