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

It's difficult to explain because it's in one way that it's always been like that.

But I guess I like to go where it burns in one way or the other.

Because if you have experience that what happens when it burns...

I don't want the hotel to burn tonight.

No, but I imagine how, what will I do?

I have a plan, you know.

So I think that a lot of the themes that I try to explore is a kind of burning themes that they are, you know, you have to find out what to do.

So maybe I'm pushing my main characters to a place where it burns underneath them.

So they have to react in one way or the other.

But when I try to read myself, as you know, a part of writing, I guess you have it in the same way, but maybe not, you can say, that I try to read myself as I haven't

When, you know, I've written 20 pages, I try to read these 20 pages as if I hadn't written it to find out if, you know, and sometimes, you know, I've read four pages and then... So I try, why did I fell off then?

then maybe I have a kind of intensity to not bore myself maybe.

But sometimes, you know, I have the experience that when I'm reading myself, I said, no, I get exhausted.

Take a pause, take a pause.

So, you know, I think that's a very important part of writing is to...

read what you have written.

But you have written an autobiography, a memoir, and it's one X left and I'm going to buy it.

Yeah, you can buy it, I'm afraid, because Victus is going to buy it.

Yeah, I will.

I will.

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