Louisiana Literature
Louisiana Literature presents literature in interviews, dialogues, readings, performances and musical interpretations. The next festival will take place 22-25 August 2024.
From the 2023 festival
four days of literature
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art’s literary festival Louisiana Literature celebrates quality literature from countries all over the world. Through the years the museum has welcomed authors and hosted literary events, just as it has made room for music and architecture.
MORE THAN A DECADE ON STAGE...
2023
Haruki Murakami, Joyce Carol Oates, Ali Smith, Tessa Hadley, Ian McEwan, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Wole Soyinka...
2022
Ocean Vuong, Torrey Peters, Deborah Levy, Laurie Anderson, Benjamín Labatut, Bernardine Evaristo, Édouard Louis, Natasha Brown...
2019
Shahrnush Parsipur, László Krasznahorkai, Sjón, Rachel Cusk, Michel Houellebecq, Robert Crumb, Claudia Rankine, Elif Shafak...
2018
Sally Rooney, CAConrad, Hiromi Itō, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Delphine de Vigan, Georgi Gospodinov, Javier Marías, Anne Carson...
2017
Paul Auster, Chris Kraus, Svetlana Alexievich, Eileen Myles, Siri Hustvedt, Péter Nádas, Colson Whitehead, Laurie Anderson...
2016
Julian Barnes, Erica Jong, Hanya Yanagihara, Claudio Magris, Linn Ullmann, Nell Zink, Karl Ove Knaugsård, Olga Tokarczuk...
2015
Richard Ford, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Colm Toíbín, Rachel Kushner, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Vladimir Sorokin, Yan Lianke...
2014
Herta Müller, Teju Cole, Lydia Davis, James McBride, Alaa Al-Aswany, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood...
2013
Per Petterson, Colum McCann, Zadie Smith, Tomomi Adachi, Sofie Oksanen, Erland Loe, Ian McEwan, Jenny Hval...
2012
Patti Smith, Nicole Krauss, Anne Carson, Jeffrey Eugenides, Linn Ullmann, Allan Hollinghurst, Jonathan Safran Foer...
2011
Marilynne Robinson, DBC Pierre, Gary Shteyngart, Junot Díaz, David Grossman, Adonis, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie...
2010
Sofi Oksanen, Günter Grass, Tomas Espedal, Ali Smith, Kevin Vennemann, Sara Stridsberg, Kerstin Ekman, Karl Ove Knausgård...
LITERATURE
ON CHANNEL
A four-day tightly packed programme makes it almost impossible to include everything, but luckily the festival has a long 'afterlife' on Louisiana Channel where many of the authors, who have been guests at Louisiana Literature, are featured.
For performances on stage or in-depth talks with Michel Houellebecq, Ben Okri, Zadie Smith, Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood, Patti Smith, Richard Ford, Svetlana Alexievich and many more please follow the link below
FESTIVAL PROGRAMS
PROGRAM 2022
PROGRAM 2019
PROGRAM 2018
PROGRAM 2017
PROGRAM 2016
PROGRAM 2015
PROGRAM 2014
PROGRAM 2013
PROGRAM 2012
PROGRAM 2011
PROGRAM 2010
Where literature begins
A series of film portraits gives you a closer look at some of Danish literature's great voices. Each writer shares their thoughts on literature from their personal and inspirational starting point - taking you on a tour around Denmark, Iceland and Greenland.
The 12 films have been produced by Louisiana Literature in 2020.
LOUISIANA AND LITERATURE
Literature has always had a place at Louisiana. Through the years the museum has welcomed authors and hosted literary events, just as it has made room for music and architecture. Previously, Nordic poetry days were held and in the 1980s Louisiana gave Eastern European dissident authors a place to speak freely. It was also at Louisiana that Salman Rushdie appeared in public in 1992 – for the first time since the fatwa calling for his assassination was issued.
Thus Louisiana Literature upholds a strong tradition. The event keeps the museum engaged in the world of literature, and at the same time the festival emphasizes great literature and its necessity.