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Louisiana Literature

Colson Whithead: I Have to Know the Destination

Nov 23, 2020
07:33

“I became a writer once I realised no one liked my stuff.”  Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey’s favourite author, Pulitzer Prize-winning Colson Whitehead, on how rejections of his first stab at a novel made him realize that he wanted to pursue writing.

Colson Whitehead was interviewed by Tonny Vorm in August 2017 in connection with the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.

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