International Authors' Stage: Carl Frode Tiller (NO) in conversation with Martin Glaz Serup

Identity, togetherness and grief

Carl Frode Tiller is one of the most important contemporary Scandinavian authors. When he takes the stage in February, it will be for a conversation about his writing, including his latest novel, Flugt, which has just been published in Danish. The novel is an exploration of grief and the relationship between the living and the dead. It is the story of the loss of a child, what binds the parents together, and the constant shifts in human relationships.

In Flugt, the reader experiences, as in the rest of Tiller's writing, how he masterfully intertwines actions, motives and intentions. Everything that is difficult, which is usually in the background, is brought into focus with Tiller.

When Carl Frode Tiller takes the stage in the Queen's Hall, he will talk about his writing, about playing with form and language, about people in deep emotional waters and about getting to know oneself through writing.

Participants

Carl Frode Tiller

Carl Frode Tiller made his debut in 2001 with the novel Skråninga (Danish: Skrænten, 2004). Since then he has published several novels, plays, long poems and short stories. For his major breakthrough trilogy, Indkredsningen, he received both the Brange Prize, the Critics' Prize and the EU's Literature Prize. Flugt (2021) is his latest novel, which was translated into Danish at the beginning of 2023.

Martin Glaz Serup  

Martin Glaz Serup is a poet, teacher, writer and editor. He has a PhD in literature and modern culture from the University of Copenhagen. In 2006 Serup received the Michael Strunge prize, and in 2008 he received the University of Copenhagen's Gold Medal for the thesis "Poetry and relational aesthetics".