Danish novelist Kim Leine joins literary presenter Lea Fløe Christensen for an informal conversation about his current novel, Olavs hus, the first volume of a trilogy drawn from his own family history. The book begins with his great-grandmother, who lives a hard life on a small smallholding in Telemark, Norway, until a French hot-air balloon drifts past one day.
The evening is part of the series Bag Bogen Live, which asks what lies behind a book: the thoughts, processes and stories that surround the person who wrote it. Expect a relaxed, likely entertaining talk about how Leine works with family history and how he brings long-vanished people and places vividly back to life on the page.
