Danish author Deniz Kiy talks about his acclaimed novel Blokkene, his wider writing and his creative process. The book follows seven residents of a housing estate, somewhere in Denmark, where the apartment blocks are both home and a battleground, and where personal hardship is tangled up with a system threatening to tear their foundations down.
Described as a collective novel and a form of magical social realism, Blokkene deals with power, resistance, homesick grief and boundless love. Kiy, born in Randers and raised in Odense by parents who emigrated from Turkey, debuted in 2021 with the poetry collection Blå øje and won the Poesiens pris for it. The evening is an opportunity to hear how personal and social stories become literature.
