Vigdis Hjorth

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342 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 17 Jun

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · Vigdis Hjorth & Catherine Taylor: Repetition · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

living with these compromises is that you know writing and painting singing dancing it's a kind of dealing with that life is difficult to express ourselves in one way or the other we all do I think

No, it's very difficult.

I think that you can never hide even what you do in one way or the other because the feeling or your thoughts will always be there in one way or the other.

But when you make fiction, you have the feeling, at least I have the feeling that I...

Even though I use myself, I can make a different landscape.

I can make up a town.

I can make up friends of the main person.

I can give her experiences or he experiences that I've never had.

So it opens up for a lot of things that you can do.

So I can let my...

characters, especially my main characters, he or she, to adventure that I've never been.

And I just have to imagine how would it be if I was crossing the Atlantic.

I would never dare do that, but maybe in my imagination, how would it be like?

So you can go places where you never could go else.

So that's a kind of adventure.

And even though you make up everything, you'll find out something about yourself than you imagine yourself.

with the name Kari alone on the boat to cross the Atlantic.

So, yeah, I hope that's the kind of answer, yeah.

Thank you.

Do we have another question?

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