3 French writers at the Louisiana Literature Festival
Since its establisment, the Lousiana Museum of Contemporary Art has placed literature at the core of its artistic vision. Each year, the international Louisiana Literature Festival brings authors from around the globe to Humlebøk, celebrating the intersection of literature, art and audiences.
For its fifteenth edition, which will take place from 21 to 24 August 2025, the festival will welcome a large delegation of French authors.
Neige Sinno studied and taught American literature and worked as a translator. She made headlines during the 2023 literary season with her third book, Triste tigre. The novel, which won several literary awards including the Femina Prize, became the third best-selling book in France that year and has been published In 30 countries. Triste tigre is a rare literary achievement: a courageaous and radically honest account of the tragedy of incest that rejects all simple answers and allows the personal and the literary, anger and beauty, to exist side by side. Published in Danish by Vinter Forlag.
After two books published by Dar El Gharb in Algeria, Kamel Daoud made a sensational debut in the French literary world in 2015 with Meursault - Contre-enquête, a novel in the form of a tribute to Albert Camus' The Stranger. He repeated the feat with his novel Houris, published in the 2023 literary season a feminist and highly sensitive account of the impact of the Algerian civil war in the 1990's. Houris was awarded the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2024. Published in Danish by Turbine Vorlag.
Edouard Louis, with his new novel, L'effondrement (The Breakdown), continues his brilliant literary account of his personal history as a class defector, which he describes as his most radical attempt to write about the poor and homophobic environment in which he grew up. Published in Danish by Gyldendal.
