Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A conversation with Gunnhild Øyehaug and Daniel Medin at the American Library in Paris. Filmed on 13/09/2023 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.
Critically acclaimed author Gunnhild Øyehaug, celebrated as “master of the short story,” presents Evil Flowers: a playful new story collection full of Baudelarian wit.
In partnership with the Center for Writers and Translators, Shakespeare and Company, and NORLA, we are delighted to present Norway’s most celebrated contemporary writer, Gunnhild Øyehaug, in conversation on her latest collection of short fiction Evil Flowers.
Across its 25 stories, Øyehaug renovates the form again and again, confirming Lydia Davis’s observation that each of her fictions is “a formal surprise, smart and droll.” Inspired by Charles Baudelaire, the groundbreaking book features an ornithologist whose brain slips into the toilet bowl, medicinal leeches that ingest information from fiberoptic cables, and an elderly woman who is trapped with a ravenous lion. Join us as we step inside Øyehaug’s wonderfully imaginative mind and explore the marvelous new directions she has paved for short fiction.
About the speakers:
Gunnhild Øyehaug is an award-winning Norwegian poet, essayist, and fiction writer whose work has been translated into many languages. She teaches creative writing in Bergen.
Daniel Medin is an editor and professor of comparative literature at the American University of Paris.
Evenings with an Author is generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg.
A conversation with Gunnhild Øyehaug and Daniel Medin at the American Library in Paris. Filmed on 13/09/2023 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.
Critically acclaimed author Gunnhild Øyehaug, celebrated as “master of the short story,” presents Evil Flowers: a playful new story collection full of Baudelarian wit.
In partnership with the Center for Writers and Translators, Shakespeare and Company, and NORLA, we are delighted to present Norway’s most celebrated contemporary writer, Gunnhild Øyehaug, in conversation on her latest collection of short fiction Evil Flowers.
Across its 25 stories, Øyehaug renovates the form again and again, confirming Lydia Davis’s observation that each of her fictions is “a formal surprise, smart and droll.” Inspired by Charles Baudelaire, the groundbreaking book features an ornithologist whose brain slips into the toilet bowl, medicinal leeches that ingest information from fiberoptic cables, and an elderly woman who is trapped with a ravenous lion. Join us as we step inside Øyehaug’s wonderfully imaginative mind and explore the marvelous new directions she has paved for short fiction.
About the speakers:
Gunnhild Øyehaug is an award-winning Norwegian poet, essayist, and fiction writer whose work has been translated into many languages. She teaches creative writing in Bergen.
Daniel Medin is an editor and professor of comparative literature at the American University of Paris.
Evenings with an Author is generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg.
