Louisiana Literature Festival is an annual literary festival which takes place around the third weekend of August at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 35 km (22 mi) north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The festival began in 2010, and each year it features around forty writers from all over the world over a span of four days.
Situated throughout the museum and the sculpture garden, the festival encompasses conversations between writers as well as between writers and critics, readings and various performances.
Since its opening in 1958, literature has played a special and vital role at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Through the years the museum has welcomed writers and literary events on the same scale as other art forms such as music and architecture. Nordic poetry days have been held at Louisiana, which in the 1980s became a meeting forum for dissident writers from Eastern Europe. In 1992 Louisiana also saw the first public appearance by Salman Rushdie following his fatwa and subsequent years of living in hiding.
In November 1988 Susan Sontag visited Louisiana and stated to a newspaper: "I loved Louisiana. The atmosphere is so special, democratic in a good way, friendly and radiant with a love of art and nature. A kind of model for what a good society could be â both very open and welcoming and in addition of very high standards. As a rule, a high level shuts people out, and openness has a tendency to lower the standard. But you have something that does not make compromises but is at the same time for all. The world should be full of Louisianas â and I don't just mean museums!"
In connection with their participation in the festival, writers have stated:
Throughout the years, authors have been invited to write about works from the Louisiana Museum's collection and spaces at the museum. In connection with the festival, the texts are presented as literary sound experiments in audio walks. Contributing writers include Anne Carson, Sjón, Teju Cole, Kenneth Goldsmith, Kiran Desai and Tomomi Adachi.
Videos from the festival are made available through Louisiana Channel, the English-language web-TV channel.
Featuring Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (NG), Laurie Anderson (US), Karl Kofi Ahlqvist (SE), Kamel Daoud (FR), Richard Flanagan (AU), Charlotte Gneuss (DE), Samantha Harvey (UK), Johan Harstad (NO), Seán Hewitt (IE/UK), Zülfü Livaneli, (TR), ÃÂdouard Louis (FR), Maggie Nelson (US), Aaiún Nin (AO), Sally Rooney (IE), Elif Shafak (TR), Neige Sinno (FR), Hwang Sok-yong (KR)
Featuring Anne Boyer (US), Anne Carson (CA), Mircea Cartarescu (RO), Rachel Cusk (UK), Joanna Rubin Dranger (SE), Matias Faldbakken (NO), Lauren Groff (US), Mohsin Hamid (PK), Oliver Lovrenski (NO), Kim de L'Horizon (CH), Lorrie Moore (US), Max Porter (UK), Adania Shibli (PS), Danez Smith (US), Colm TóibÃÂn IE), Peter Waterhouse (AU), Kjell Westö (FI)
Featuring Constance Debré (FR), Hernan Diaz (AR), Claudia Durastanti (IT/US), Ia Genberg (SE), Abdulrazak Gurnah (TZ/UK), Tessa Hadley (UK), Frida Isberg (IS), Claire Keegan (IR), Ian McEwan (UK), Eva Menasse (AT), Haruki Murakami (JP), Joyce Carol Oates (US), Audur Ava Olafsdottir (IS), Karolina Ramqvist (SE), Ali Smith (UK), Wole Soyinka (NG), Camila Sosa Villada (AR)
Featuring Laurie Anderson (US), Claire-Louise Bennett (UK), Natasha Brown (UK), Bernardine Evaristo (UK), Judith Hermann (DE), BenjamÃÂn Labatut (CL), Ben Lerner (US), Deborah Levy (UK), ÃÂdouard Louis (FR), Pola Oloixarac (AR), Torrey Peters (US), Koleka Putuma (ZA), Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (NL), Alex Schulman (SE), Jón Kalman Stefánsson (IS), Maria Stepanova (RU), Carl Frode Tiller (NO), Linn Ullmann (NO), Ocean Vuong (VN/US)
Featuring Robert Crumb, (US), Aline Kominsky-Crumb (US), Rachel Cusk (UK), Tomas Espedal (NO), Matias Faldbakken (NO), Katarzyna Fetlià Âska (PL), Roxane Gay (US), Lisa Halliday (US), Isabella Hammad (UK), Michel Houellebecq (FR), László Krasznahorkai (HU), Mazen Maarouf (LB), Sayaka Murata (JP), Ben Okri (NI/UK), Shahrnush Parsipur (IR), Per Petterson (NO), Claudia Rankine (US), Elif Shafak (TR/UK), Sjón (IS), Sara Stridsberg (SE), Anne Waldman (US)
Featuring Johannes Anyuru (SE), Anne Carson (CA), Teju Cole (US/NI), CAConrad (US), Niels Fredrik Dahl (NO), Mariana EnrÃÂquez|Mariana Enriquez (AR), Georgi Gospodinov (BG),Hiromi Ità  (JP), Tahar Ben Jelloun (MA), Daniel Kehlmann (AU/DE), Jan Kjærstad (NO), Christian Kracht (CH), Javier MarÃÂas (ES), Péter Nádas (HU), Guadalupe Nettel (MX), Sally Rooney (IR), Domenico Starnone (IT), Yoko Tawada (JP), Delphine de Vigan (FR), Gunnhild ÃÂyehaug (NO)
Featuring Svetlana Alexievich (BY), Laurie Anderson (US), Paul Auster (US), ÃÂlvaro Enrigue (MX),Vigdis Hjorth]] (NO), Yu Hua (CH), Siri Hustvedt (US), Linda Boström KnausgÃÂ¥rd (SE), Chris Kraus (US), ÃÂdouard Louis (FR), Valeria Luiselli (MX), Imbolo Mbue (CM), Nástio Mosquito, (AO) Eileen Myles (US), Jenny Offill (US), Cia Rinne (SE), Samanta Schweblin(AR), Zadie Smith (GB), Colson Whitehead (US)
Featuring Julian Barnes (UK), Caroline Bergvall (NO/FR), Tomas Espedal (NO), Beate Grimsrud (NO), Erica Jong (DK), Jonas Hassen Khemiri (SE), Karl Ove KnausgÃÂ¥rd (NO),Claudio Magris (IT), Jóanes Nielsen (FA), Chigozie Obioma (NG), Steve Roggenbuck (US), Rike Scheffler (DE), Abdellah Taïa (MA), Olga Tokarczuk (PL), Linn Ullmann (NO), Carl-Henning Wijkmark (SE), Hanya Yanagihara (US), Nell Zink (US)
Featuring Marie Darrieussecq (FR), Hans Magnus Enzensberger (DE), Richard Ford (US), Jonas Gardell (SE), Kenneth Goldsmith (US), Niviaq Korneliussen (DK/GR), Rachel Kushner (US), Yan Lianke (CH), Leonardo Padura (CU), Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (RU), Clemens Setz (AT), Vladimir Sorokin (RU), Sara Stridsberg (SE), Colm TóibÃÂn (IR), Ngugi wa Thiong'o (KE)
Featuring Alaa al-Aswany (EG), Lena Andersson (SE), Margaret Atwood (CA), Teju Cole (NG/US), Lydia Davis (US), Péter Esterházy (HU), Athena Farrokhzad (SE), Roy Jacobsen (NO), Daniel Kehlmann (AT/DE), James McBride (US), Philipp Meyer (US),David Mitchell (UK), Herta Müller (RO/DE), Joyce Carol Oates (US), Michael Ondaatje (CA), Sjón (IS), Herbjørg Wassmo (NO)
Featuring Tomomi Adachi (JP), [Johannes Anyuru (SE),Katarina Frostenson (SE), Olga Grjasnowa (DE), Einar Már Guðmundsson (IS), Jenny Hval (NO), Nick Laird (IE), Waciny Laredj (DZ), Rosa Liksom (FI), Erlend Loe (NO), Colum McCann (US), Ian McEwan (UK), Sofi Oksanen (FI), Antonio Pennacchi (IT), Per Petterson (NO), Taiye Selasi (UK), Fredrik Sjöberg (SE), Zadie Smith (UK)
Featuring César Aira (ARG), Anne Carson (CAN), Kiran Desai (IND), Kerstin Ekman (SE), Tomas Espedal (NO), Jeffrey Eugenides (US), Alan Hollinghurst (GB), Nicole Krauss (US), Mara Lee (SE), Henning Mankell (SE), Hisham Matar (LY), Cia Rinne (SE), Jonathan Safran Foer (US), Judith Schalansky (D), Patti Smith (US),Göran Sonnevi (SE), Linn Ullmann (SE), David Vann (US)
Featuring Adonis (SY), Ibrahim al-Koni (LY), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (NG), Kjell Askildsen (N), Alberto Blanco (MEX), Linda Boström KnausgÃÂ¥rd (SE), Junot DÃÂaz (DO/US), Gyrdir Eliasson (IS),David Grossman (IL), Karl Ove KnausgÃÂ¥rd (NO), Märta Tikkanen (FI), Yiyun Li (CN/US), DBC Pierre (AU), Marilynne Robinson (US); Lars Saabye Christensen (NO), Steve Sem-Sandberg (SE), Gary Shteyngart (US); Ilija Trojanow (BG/DE), Juli Zeh (DE)
Featuring Kerstin Ekman (S), Tomas Espedal (NO), Tua Forsström (FI), Günter Grass (DE), HallgrÃÂmur Helgason (IS), Karl Ove KnausgÃÂ¥rd (N), Franck Leibovici (F), John Ajvide Lindqvist (SE),Sofi Oksanen (FI), Ali Smith (UK), Dag Solstad (NO), Jón Kalman Stefánsson (IS), Sara Stridsberg (SE), Jean-Philippe Toussaint (B), Kevin Vennemann (D)