Louisiana Literature
Welcome to Louisiana Literature, a podcast produced by Louisiana Channel. Each week we offer you an interview with a great writer in English. All episodes are recorded in connection with Louisiana Literature, the annual festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. Learn more about the festival through this link: https://louisiana.dk/en/whats-on/louisiana-literature/ Find more than 300 video interviews with writers at http://channel.louisiana.dk
Louisiana Literature
Colson Whithead: I Have to Know the Destination
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Episode 7
“I became a writer once I realised no one liked my stuff.” Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey’s favourite author, Pulitzer Prize-winning Colson Whitehead, on how rejections of his first stab at a novel made him realize that he wanted to pursue writing.
Colson Whitehead was interviewed by Tonny Vorm in August 2017 in connection with the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.